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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,80b3e504140e89fd X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-06-20 14:03:06 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!hammer.uoregon.edu!skates!not-for-mail From: Stephen Leake Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Config_Files proposal Date: 20 Jun 2002 16:58:47 -0400 Organization: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (skates.gsfc.nasa.gov) Message-ID: References: <4519e058.0206190708.2ef205e4@posting.google.com> <3D113110.6000801@telepath.com> <3D124027.3A5F16BB@nbi.dk> NNTP-Posting-Host: anarres.gsfc.nasa.gov Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: skates.gsfc.nasa.gov 1024607185 7356 128.183.220.71 (20 Jun 2002 21:06:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.gsfc.nasa.gov NNTP-Posting-Date: 20 Jun 2002 21:06:25 GMT User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:26524 Date: 2002-06-20T21:06:25+00:00 List-Id: Jacob Sparre Andersen writes: > Stephen Leake wrote: > > > Ted Dennison writes: > > > > You should probably at least post the merits and drawback of each > > > approach, as you see it. Presumably others will do the same if they > > > think you missed something. > > > > Hmm. I did that on the web page. By "post", do you mean here on > > comp.lang.ada? > > I don't know what _Ted_ meant, but it is my experience that > you get much more discussion going, if you post the text on > the newsgroup, so it is trivial for people to quote and > comment it. Ok. But when the text gets long enough, I find it more awkward. Maybe my threshold for "long enough" is too low :). -- -- Stephe