> > One person on .java *did* express discontent with the decision to
> > discontinue the group.
>
> So they didn't read the message, which specifically requests follow-ups to
> n.p.m.general, then? :-) I heard nothing of this.
More or less. It was a response to a message I sent that was basically
a follow-up to yours (although I forgot to mention that it should be
sent to .general) to ask if anyone could think of reasons for it.
> > However, if .java is dead and gone, I'll respect the decision.
>
> The question is: will there really be enough non-OJI java discussions, and
> will the number of people who are interested in them be sufficiently
> different from those in oji, to warrant a new group? (There's also the
> thing that any group called .java attracts off-topic questions.)
Well, one could make the same argument that there won't be enough OJI
questions, since the interfaces are more or less frozen for that now.
:) Actually, if there were some way to convey other non-OJI problems as
on-topic in an .oji group (Perhaps a name of .oji-jre or something
sufficiently obscure to keep out general Java off-topic questions but
make on-topic stuff appropriate?), that might be ideal.
