On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 7:38 PM, Walter Bright <[email protected]> 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. >
It's a good point... I still don't think it's a bad idea, but I can see your reason to be reluctant perfectly well. However, why propose it if you don't like the idea in the first place ?
