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You seem to have forgotten the best of all:
Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded. -- Yogi Berra.
IMO, this is a serious danger when a newsgroup gets too much traffic --
the best-informed and most intelligent people typically find (or
create) new places to talk, leaving behind a crowd of "nobodies". I
honestly don't mean that as an insult -- it just happens to be the word
in the quote. One need not be world-famous to make useful and helpful
contributions, but the fact remains that many of those with the big
names really have earned them and excessive, poorly-focused traffic
seems a nearly sure-fire way of alienating most of them.
At the risk of mixing threads, I'd suggest that this is one superb
reason that C# should NOT be discussed here. I believe this newsgroup
probably already has more traffic than is really optimal, and I believe
broadening the focus would, if anything, reduce the amount of useful
information being posted.