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,c2318591037235d2 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 11232c,c2318591037235d2 X-Google-Attributes: gid11232c,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-03-20 10:05:28 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!canoe.uoregon.edu!hammer.uoregon.edu!skates!not-for-mail From: Stephen Leake Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,misc.misc Subject: Re: periodicity Followup-To: comp.lang.ada Date: 20 Mar 2002 12:56:36 -0500 Organization: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Message-ID: References: <4f13319b766a72c7ae2531d5c399bdca.48257@mygate.mailgate.org> <5ee5b646.0203182132.752d6b18@posting.google.com> <3cd9b572a0b9f2d8b2459674bacef4b6.48257@mygate.mailgate.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: anarres.gsfc.nasa.gov Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: skates.gsfc.nasa.gov 1016647334 9571 128.183.220.71 (20 Mar 2002 18:02:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.gsfc.nasa.gov NNTP-Posting-Date: 20 Mar 2002 18:02:14 GMT User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:21497 misc.misc:5833 Date: 2002-03-20T18:02:14+00:00 List-Id: "Kent Paul Dolan" writes: > "Robert Dewar" wrote: > > > I think this would be a bad idea. A hundred new messages > > a day is perfectly manageable if you have a decent news > > reader that tracks threads. Mostly the subjects of threads > > are clear enough, I find I only look at about one third > > of all the threads. A thread like "future of Ada" has lots > > of posts, but if you are not interested in advocacy posts > > (I am not), you just skip the whole thread. THat's near > > enough equivalent to having a separate advocacy subgroup. > > Ah, yes, the old "I've got great technology, so the devil take the > hindmost" argument. In this case "great technology" consists of Gnu Emacs or Netscape Mozilla, both free downloads that run on any reasonable computer (I include 5 year old Pentiums running Win95 in my definition of "reasonable"). > Of course, if one were trying to evangelize some issue near and dear > to one, say, the wide dissemination of a programming language, to > someplace where the technology isn't the most modern, say, the third > world, then a willingness to believe that the world is not > restricted to just what you see on your desktop might be a wiser > approach. If they can't run Netscape, they can't run Ada. So I think that's ok! > > > Let's leave this discussion, if any, to others. Please follow your own advice! -- -- Stephe