[MacPerl] News group

[Matthias Ulrich Neeracher <neeri@iis.ee.ethz.ch>]

hal@dtor.com (Hal Wine)
>At 09:23 96-02-28, Matthias Ulrich Neeracher wrote:
>
>>Regarding comp.* groups, I have a slight preference for comp.lang.perl.mac
>>over comp.sys.mac.programmer.perl, as there are the precedents of
>>comp.lang.{forth,pascal}.mac.
>
>I think the time is right for comp.lang.perl.mac.  The major advantage
>is that new MacPerl users would have a better chance of having their
>postings answered.  Right now, unless they mention Mac or MacPerl in
>the subject line, many of the messages go unanswered, I'm afraid.
>
>Most of the clpm messages I respond to involve redirecting the folks to
>this list.

Agreed.

>Hmm, actually, I think I'd prefer comp.lang.perl.nonunix.  That'd stop
>a proliferation into multiple sub groups.

I doubt that MS-DOS/NT traffic is of particular relevance for MacPerl users
and vice versa. Let them get their own newsgroup :-)

Besides, classifying groups as to what they are *not* is frowned upon. The only
example I know is alt.sex.not :-) We wouldn't want our group to end up as
comp.lang.nonjava.nonunix.

Matthias

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