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Antoninus Twink
This group is about C, not every- thing that was ever written in some
dialect resembling C.
So say you. If you want a group where you can enforce topicality, set up
a moderated group - comp.lang.c.heathfields-whims or whatever. Each
poster to this group can decide for himself what he wants to post and
within what bounds of topicality.
With your "we discuss everything here that ever was written in
anything that somehow resembles C" approach you try to kill exactly
what makes clc worth reading. If you would get away with it it would
become another completely useless place where it's impossible to get
relevant informations and where the people that actually know their
stuff leave in disgust.
I don't accept this analysis. I think it's more likely that experts stop
by clc, get turned off by the stupid bickering and pedantry, and take
their knowledge elsewhere. I can't see how it would be a bad thing for
the atmosphere to become more open and frank.
But whom I am telling this. Someone who seems to write at least 20 to
30 poests a day (with a record at over 50 a day over a months period)
for sure wont have time for thinking.
You're out by an order of magnitude.
By far the most prolific posters to this group are Heathfield, Thomson
and CBF. One of these is machine-like, and the other two do indeed have
a habit of firing on all cylinders without thinking properly, or indeed
reading the question at all.
Consider yourself finally plonked together with the other two
assholes.
Capital idea. See, it's not so hard, is it? Plonk me, plonk any threads
that you consider "off topic, not portable, blah blah", and then you
won't have to get het up about things, and you can go along happily
reading posts about the abstract machine, and the rest of us can enjoy
the posts about the real world too. Everyone's problems are solved.
I wish you could convince the other regulars of the merits of such a
live-and-let-live approach: they can't resist turning every "off topic"
thread into a flame war.