In said:
Someone who might know the answer might have missed my question then or
might have been too busy; new people start to appear in the newsgroup
who might be able to answer; I might have been fuzzy and may want
to clarify my question this time. I think these are all valid reasons.
Unless you rephrase the question, all you can achieve by reposting it
is annoying the regulars. Some of them may killfile you, as a result,
which is probably not what you want.
If the relevant text of the standard is not clear enough to you, asking
for a clarification there is OK. Ditto if, after a careful search, you're
unable to find the relevant text.
Sometimes I see questions and answers in csc that I would
qualify for clc (I don't mean obvious mis-addressings). Could it be
that more difficult questions are asked in csc? In that case I'd rather
like to be told to ask there rather than to judge myself (I have been
told so before).
The distinction between the two newsgroups is not very clear. When in
doubt, try c.l.c first. If you're not satisfied with the answer(s) you
get, try again on c.s.c.
OTOH sometimes I see people from csc answer in clc,
so they must be reading it too.
Some people read both newsgroups, some questions are crossposted to both
newsgroups.
What's the difference? I see same regulars in both groups.
You're hallucinating. There are c.l.c.m regulars that are never seen in
c.l.c (unless the questions are crossposted in both newsgroups).
I miss the reason why both groups exist.
c.l.c.m exists for people who don't want to put up with the noise in c.l.c
as well as for the regular c.l.c people. It was created, about 8 years
ago, by c.l.c people who were annoyed by the noise level in c.l.c (it was
somewhat bigger than it is today). It has never been a great success,
because of the latency inherent in any human-moderated newsgroup.
Dan