On 6/13/2002 12:21 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] felt the need to say: > On Wed, 12 Jun 2002 13:21:13 -0500, Hugo Van Woerkom <hugo@vanwoerkom> > wrote: > > >>Jay Garcia wrote: >> >>>The groups on the news.mozilla.org server are for "Developers" only. >>> >>>If you are not a "Developer", then please visit one or more of the >>>following groups for end-user Technical Support. >>>- >> > > Excuse me, but, the titles of these newsgroups are: > > netscape.PUBLIC.mozilla.mail-news > netscape.PUBLIC.mozilla.general > netscape.PUBLIC.mozilla.win32 > etc. > > These are PUBLIC newsgroups, for the GENERAL PUBLIC, not developer > newsgroups! If you only want developers, create a new newsgroup just > for them, and label it as such. >
You'd think so, wouldn't you? :) Unfortunately, this isn't the case and the names are misleading. See http://www.mozilla.org/community.html for more info on what each group is for. It has always been a source of confusion to have both the "netscape" and the "public" in the newsgroup names, and they're working on getting a mozilla.* hierarchy set up, but what we've got is what we've got for now. IMHO, if a question has something to do with "How can I make Mozilla do X?", it's a user question and belongs in the n.m.user.* groups. If it's a "X causes Moz to crash, what can we do about it?" question, that's a matter for the developers and belongs in the appropriate n.p.mozilla.* groups. Hopefully the new server will be up and running soon, and we can get rid of all confusion by ditching netscape and public from all newsgroup names. -- ~/Garth
