Whats the difference between the yahoo group and this google groups?

[smileplzz]

r there any files which we can download from this group.
can we only ask questions in this group?
no files stored like it is there in yahoo groups.

i think it should be there in group services.

ur new group member
Ram
20/m/India


e-mail id:
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waiting for ur reply.

 

[Keith Thompson]

r there any files which we can download from this group.
can we only ask questions in this group?
no files stored like it is there in yahoo groups.

i think it should be there in group services.

Please spell out words: "are", not "r"; "your", not "ur".

This is neither a Yahoo group nor a Google group. It's a Usenet
newsgroup, which predates both Yahoo and Google by decades. (Google
happens to provide an interface to Usenet, which is pretty good for
searching retrieving old articles but lousy for posting.)

No, there are no files you can download. This is a discussion group.
There's no such thing as "group services", and there's nobody in
charge.

There's a periodically posted article with the subject "Welcome to
comp.lang.c!" which you may find useful. I advise lurking for a while
(reading the newsgroup without posting) to get the feel of it.

 

[Amarendra Godbole]

Keith Thompson said:

newsgroup, which predates both Yahoo and Google by decades. (Google
happens to provide an interface to Usenet, which is pretty good for
searching retrieving old articles but lousy for posting.)

The new groups-beta from google is pretty good for posting too.
Messages appear instantaneously, unlike the previous delay. Added to it
is a facility to subscribe and add watches to posts. It is
http://groups-beta.google.com/

Cheers,
Amar

 

[Michael Mair]

Keith Thompson said:



The new groups-beta from google is pretty good for posting too.
Messages appear instantaneously, unlike the previous delay. Added to it
is a facility to subscribe and add watches to posts. It is
http://groups-beta.google.com/

The "improvements" include gobbling of tabs and spaces in preformatted
code, so it is about useless for many technical groups.
The "instantaneously" is to be taken cum grano salis if we consider
the number of double posts from people using the new google interface.

The latter may be one of these unsurmountable "it should be no problem"
problems, but the former is plain nasty. It takes away from you the
means to post what you write. This even may lead to different semantics
for languages for which the form (i.e. indentation etc.) defines logical
blocks etc.


Cheers
Michael

 

[smileplzz]

did u(sorry you) answer me out of frustration or just the normal thing?
when i read it i thought u(sorry you) were irritated by this question
hence answered me like this.
By the way who created this usenet news group?
its good but needs development.

 

[Keith Thompson]

did u(sorry you) answer me out of frustration or just the normal thing?

Probably a little of both, frankly, but my advice was sincere.

Incidentally, I wasn't sure who you were responding to in your latest
message (I had to check the parent article); it's helpful to include
attributions.

when i read it i thought u(sorry you) were irritated by this question
hence answered me like this.
By the way who created this usenet news group?
its good but needs development.

I don't know who created it, but I think it's been around for over 20
years.

Did you have a question about C?

 

[Nick Austin]

By the way who created this usenet news group?

Google has archives going back to November 1986. For example:

http://www.google.co.uk/groups?hl=en&lr=&th=7f588df9880dafc

As you can see this joins mid-thread and Google does not
appear to have any archives from before this date.

Nick.

 

[john_bode]

r there any files which we can download from this group.
can we only ask questions in this group?
no files stored like it is there in yahoo groups.

This is a discussion forum only, centered on the C programming language
(meaning discussion of the language itself, not any specific
implementation of the language); no downloads here.

i think it should be there in group services.

There are no "group services". Usenet newsgroups don't really work
that way.

 

[Mark McIntyre]

By the way who created this usenet news group?

This usenet group was created around the same time as the internet, back in
the early 80s. It was renamed from net.lang.c in the Great Renaming.

its good but needs development.

Actually I suspect that comp.lang.c is pretty mature by its 20th
birthday...

 

[Mark McIntyre]

Google has archives going back to November 1986.

net.lang.c, comp.lang.c's original name, dates from 21st November 1982 I
believe. At least, a google search turns up a couple of documents showing
net.lang.c as being added to the groups list on that date.

 

[Dik T. Winter]

> (e-mail address removed) writes: ....
>
> I don't know who created it, but I think it's been around for over 20
> years.

Jerry Schwarz from BTL Murray Hill, 21 October 1982, as net.lang.c
The only charter for this newsgroup comes from that first article:

 

[Dik T. Winter]

> On 30 Dec 2004 22:12:22 -0800, (e-mail address removed) wrote:
>
>
> Google has archives going back to November 1986. For example:
>
> http://www.google.co.uk/groups?hl=en&lr=&th=7f588df9880dafc
>
> As you can see this joins mid-thread and Google does not
> appear to have any archives from before this date.

Ah, the great renaming from 1986. Google goes back to 1981, but you have
to know the group name before that renaming.

 

[Dik T. Winter]

> On 30 Dec 2004 22:12:22 -0800, in comp.lang.c , (e-mail address removed) wrote:
>
>
> This usenet group was created around the same time as the internet, back in
> the early 80s. It was renamed from net.lang.c in the Great Renaming.

Two errors here. The creation of comp.lang.c is a few years after the
creation of usenet, and a few years before the creation of internet.
For a good history see (although that one does not show when internet
was created - I think around 1986 - it is about usenet only):
<http://groups.google.nl/[email protected]&output=gplain>.
The html link mentioned in that article no longer exists. I joined the group
by the end of 1984; I should have celebrated the 20 year anniversary ;-).

 

[Randy Howard]

Jerry Schwarz from BTL Murray Hill, 21 October 1982, as net.lang.c
The only charter for this newsgroup comes from that first article:

Once upon a time, discussing specific compilers was acceptable,
but alas today it is not.

 

[Mark McIntyre]

Two errors here. The creation of comp.lang.c is a few years after the
creation of usenet, and a few years before the creation of internet.

Firstly note that I said "around the same time as". In case that doesn't
translate well into Dutch, it doesn't mean simultaneously with, it means
"some time close to".

Secondly you're defining the internet as starting when www was released on
the public. I disagree this definition. The internet is the interconnecting
network of computers rather than a single technology running over it. The
network existed long before www.

Sorry to be pedantic but if you will start it...

 

[Keith Thompson]

Firstly note that I said "around the same time as". In case that doesn't
translate well into Dutch, it doesn't mean simultaneously with, it means
"some time close to".

As it turns out, net.lang.c was created very close to the time when
the Internet was created, but it wasn't carried over the Internet
until later.

Secondly you're defining the internet as starting when www was released on
the public. I disagree this definition. The internet is the interconnecting
network of computers rather than a single technology running over it. The
network existed long before www.

No, I don't think that's what we meant. The WWW originated around
1990. The Internet arguably originated 1983-01-01, when the ARPANET
changed its core protocols to TCP/IP (though the ARPANET itself dates
back to 1969).

Usenet was created in 1979, and net.lang.c appears to have been
created in 1982 (and renamed to comp.lang.c in 1986). For a long
time, most Usenet traffic was carried over UUCP, not over the
Internet.

 

[Mark McIntyre]

As it turns out, net.lang.c was created very close to the time when
the Internet was created, but it wasn't carried over the Internet
until later.

No comment.

No, I don't think that's what we meant. The WWW originated around
1990. The Internet arguably originated 1983-01-01, when the ARPANET
changed its core protocols to TCP/IP (though the ARPANET itself dates
back to 1969).

Yes, thats a definition I can accept. Especially since it fits my original
dates well !!

 

[Dik T. Winter]

> On Sat, 1 Jan 2005 02:55:56 GMT, in comp.lang.c , "Dik T. Winter"

>
> Firstly note that I said "around the same time as". In case that doesn't
> translate well into Dutch, it doesn't mean simultaneously with, it means
> "some time close to".

I should not have used the word error. What I thought wrong was the
suggestion that there was any relation between the creation of both.

> Secondly you're defining the internet as starting when www was released on
> the public. I disagree this definition.

I do not define it as such. We were the first open non-USA, non-Canada
site connected to the internet back in 1988, still quite some time before
www (and at that time also called NSFnet). But we had Usenet since about
1983, and it was mainly UUCP which was used for Usenet.

 

[Tomi Häsä]

By the way who created this usenet news group?

Here's some information on how Usenet newsgroups are created:

http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/faqs/big-eight.html
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/usenet/creating-newsgroups/part1/

Here's some general information about Usenet:

http://www.newbie.net/tgos/newbie/
http://www.faqs.org/usenet/index.html
http://www.ibiblio.org/usenet-i/
http://groups.google.co.uk/googlegroups/basics.html
http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Usenet/History/
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/usenet/dont.html
http://www.google.com/googlegroups/archive_announce_20.html

You are using Google Groups Beta, so here's some info about GG2:

http://www.google.com/googlegroups/tour/index.html

Here's the Google Groups Beta discussion forum, where you can ask for help
in case you are having problems with using GG2:

http://groups-beta.google.com/group/google-labs-groups2

its good but needs development.

This Usenet newsgroup looks better when you view it with Google Groups
Original, or with a newsreader:

http://groups.google.co.uk/groups?hl=en&lr=&q=comp.lang.c
http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/oe/