From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_DATE, TO_NO_BRKTS_PCNT autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,a551d40deb8e8092,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-12-06 07:08:11 PST Path: bga.com!news.sprintlink.net!hookup!news.mathworks.com!panix!cmcl2!thecourier.cims.nyu.edu!thecourier.cims.nyu.edu!nobody From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: cross-posting and selling Ada Date: 6 Dec 1994 08:31:29 -0500 Organization: Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences Message-ID: <3c1p3h$jeu@gnat.cs.nyu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: gnat.cs.nyu.edu Date: 1994-12-06T08:31:29-05:00 List-Id: For some time now a thread has been running called "Why large companies don't use Ada", which has been heavily cross-posted. Many of the posts are Ada specific, and many are from people supporting Ada. Yet, we are all sending out a barrage of messages to multiple newsgroups over and over again emphasizing that large companies don't use Ada. I think it would be useful if at least all the posters to CLA would be careful with this thread. Change both the subject and the cross-list post to avoid sending out unintentional negative messages and annoying other newsgroup readers with ireelevant Ada messages. No one is forcing or asking anyone to support Ada in any way, but it seems worth taking the effort to avoid sending negative publicity by accident :-) If readers of C++ newsgroups etc see a long sequence of known Ada people sending out dozens of messages at least tacitly aggreing to the subject post, they are bound to assume that it is correct. Sure it is the case that not many large companies are using Ada, but it would sure be nice if the subject had read something like "Why aren't more large companies using Ada" or "Why don't more large companies see the benefits of Ada" or something even more neutral! Robert Dewar "Working hard, but according to my records, I seem to have missed my 30% message quota for CLA nearly every day for the last 1000 days!"