Walter Bright wrote: > Tomas Lindquist Olsen wrote: >> I think it's a great idea, there's some decent arguments that they >> should have more general names, but I like the idea that you'd always >> know which group to look in for specific issues, even when we're at >> D4! > > I do have reservations about the idea, based on experience with all the > Digital Mars C++ newsgroups. There are too many, making for rather thin > traffic. It's tedious to check them all for new postings, which means > that that doesn't happen, and new postings often languish as a result. > > The main D n.g. gets a lot of action, which feeds on itself. I'm > reluctant to mess with success.
Similar to what Knud Soerensen suggested: Rename .learn to .programming and .d to .design or .future. And while we're at it: merge .dwt .gnu .ide .debugger into .tools or .toolchain or something like that. That way you end up with even less newsgroups!