On Sun, 16 Jun 1996, Eric Pilcher wrote: > The problem is, I'm working on a circle code under Linux with > gcc and thus, all the posts about Win95 and DOS and ELF aren't > really worth a pile of Fido corpses to me. Meanwhile, I have > to sift through and delete them all out. For those of us not running Linux all the Linux/ELF things recently are also annoying. Not to mention questions about setting up crontab files, learning 'gdb', and other such nonsense. Sure, it get's annoying. It'd be really nice if people would pay attention to their subject headers and make them convient for other people to selectively read. For instance, I added a little "OFF TOPIC" to the subject header so people not willing to participate in off-topic discussions can choose to ignore it. It'd help if people used the NEWBIE, CODE, DISCUSSION, OFF TOPIC notes in their subject headers, as well as, when neccessary some more information about what the message is going to be about. For instance the recent discussion about Linux-ELF, could be headed like, "(Linux/ELF) OFF TOPIC: Odd 'malloc' crash..." If someone didn't know squat about Linux/ELF they could easily ignore it. > Has anyone concidered a newsgroup? Yes, I know, EVIL people > can post to newsgroups. They would spam us with phone sex > adds and pyramid schemes. They would troll with surveys for > bogus research projects or false messages of how they desperately > needed money becuase they were downsized and can no longer afford > the payments on their Lexus, condo, pleasure yatch, etc. Is there something that stops them from doing that here? The trouble of sending a subscription message? Of course, it's a bit inconvient to go in search of mailing lists to post to. :) > Hell, moderate the thing if you have to, but I think it would > be a lot more user (not to mention mailbox) friendly. It would to some extent. There'd be more spam if it wasn't moderated, there'd be tons of advertisements and even more people trying to do Stupid Newbie Tricks with their code. Assuming it wasn't moderated. If it was, then it would offer no advantage over a moderated form of the mailing list. I think the mailing list is better. -dak
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