szr wrote:
Arne Vajhøj wrote:
szr wrote:
Peter Duniho wrote:
On Fri, 30 May 2008 22:40:03 -0700, szr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Arne Vajhøj wrote:
Stephan Bour wrote:
Lew wrote:
} John Thingstad wrote:
} > Perl is solidly based in the UNIX world on awk, sed, } > bash
and C. I don't like the style, but many do.
}
} Please exclude the Java newsgroups from this discussion.
Did it ever occur to you that you don't speak for entire news
groups?
Did it occur to you that there are nothing about Java in the
above ?
Looking at the original post, it doesn't appear to be about any
specific language.
Indeed. That suggests it's probably off-topic in most, if not all,
of the newsgroups to which it was posted, inasmuch as they exist for
topics specific to a given programming language.
Perhaps - comp.programming might of been a better place, but not all
people who follow groups for specific languages follow a general
group like that - but let me ask you something. What is it you
really have against discussing topics with people of neighboring
groups? Keep in mind you don't have to read anything you do not want
to read. [1]
I very much doubt that the original thread is relevant for the Java
group.
But the subthread Lew commente don was about Perl and Unix. That is
clearly off topic.
I agree with and understand what you are saying in general, but still,
isn't it possible that were are people in the java group (and others)
who might of been following the thread, only to discover (probably not
right away) that someone decided to remove the group they were reading
the thread from? I know I would not like that, even if it wasn't on
topic at the branch.
Personally, I find it very annoying to have to switch news groups in
order to resume a thread and weed my way down the thread to where it
left off before it was cut off from the previous group.
I am relative tolerant towards threads that are a bit off topic, if
the S/N ratio overall is good.
But I accept and respect that other people has a more strict
attitude against off topic posts.
And I am very little tolerant towards people that think they
can attack those that want only on topic posts.
One thing is to ask for a bit of slack regarding the rules
something else is attacking those that want the rules
kept.
Arne
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