Re: How do I use GNAT.Directory_Operations.Iteration?

[Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>]

Anonymous wrote on comp.lang.ada:
> Ludovic Brenta <ludo...@ludovic-brenta.org> wrote:
>>> I don't know about anyone else, but... if I asked a group of people
>>> for advice on, say, fishing, and then covered my ears if the person
>>> who responded came from a country I had a beef with or belonged to a
>>> political party I don't like---I'd think that would be incredibly rude
>>> behavior. This strikes me as similar.
>
> It's not similar. I didn't filter on the group after I posted to it, I have
> been filtering on google groups for a long time to eliminate spam. Your
> analogy isn't. I figure anybody intelligent enough to participate in usenet
> is intelligent enough to post through a news server or m2n gateway and use a
> news client and that's conventional wisdom.

There are places where firewalls block NNTP.  Mail to news does not
always work either.  In these situations, the only reasonable option
is a web interface to Usenet.

>> Asking a group for advice, and then shutting out a certain subset of that
>> group who may provide good advice, seems like poor etiquette, unfriendly,
>> something like that, I dunno...
>
> That's right, you don't know.

Adam doesn't know that Google Groups is a source of a lot of spam,
simply because comp.lang.ada is mostly spam-free, even with all those
"evil" Google Groupers as regulars.  Which is what *you* seem not to
know.  Personally, I think Adam overreacted to your overreaction.

> It's standard practice to eliminate certain news servers
       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

It's "standard practice" to program in Visual Basic or Java, not Ada.
So don't get me started on "standard practices".

> because of spam and people who think usenet is google groups
> and use it as their playground. I realize there are two or three legitimate
> posters on google groups and I would like to see what they have to say but
> the spam and millions of noise level posts make that not worth it in the
> long run. What gives you the right to tell me what I have to read?

Adam is an expert on Ada. If you want to learn Ada then you should
listen to him, no matter what news client he chooses.  And if you're
going to make friends on this place, you'd better not antagonize
people a priori.

'nuff said and read, I'll now ignore the rest of this thread.

--
Ludovic Brenta.