From: roarf@stud.cs.uit.no (Roar Foshaug)
Subject: Re: splitting the group 
Keywords: No
Organization: University of Tromsoe, Norway
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 17:33:34 GMT

In article <gate.Rq8uPB1w165w@toz.buffalo.ny.us>, cyberman@toz.buffalo.ny.us (Cyberman) writes:
|> 
|>      -=> Bjoern Stabell spoke of "Re: splitting the group (" <=-
|>     To All at 08-20-92  18:12
|>  BS> My side note:  I think all this discussing for and against HW related
|>  BS> issues in rec.games.programmer really should be in the Call For
|>  BS> Discussion part of a new newsgroup - comp.sys.ibm.programmer.hardware
|>  BS> (or something).
|> 
|> Actually I think your being a bit overbearing.  You must realize
|> that not everyone has access to ALL groups.  I think this is
        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
|> displaying the typical "keep out of my territory" thinking that
|> is prevalent in this group.
|> 


So what? Should I start asking for sex gifs on rec.games.programmer just
because our site doesn't have alt.sex.pictures? Even still, I don't think
that is the problem. For those few sites that actually rate rec.* groups
over comp.* groups its ok to post to wrong group, but are there really
that many sites doing this? Is not the comp.* hierarchy usually higher
rated than the rest? (including comp.ibm.pc.hardware or whatever).

[...]

|> Not really they should be put into a FAQ.  Just because poeple
|> are discussing something you don't want to read doesn't mean you
|> have to play censor.  Which is by the way what you are doing,
|> Censorship.  I think this problem may be one of culture as well,
   ^^^^^^^^^^                                      ^^^^^^^
|> but that would not be appropriate to this discussion.

OK. Attempting to discuss contents of a group is Censorship now.
The mentioning of "culture" gives a nice touch, btw. Why not simply
blame society in general?


A final question : Would all you people wondering about PC hw spesific
questions in connection with game programming feel better if there
existed groups rec.games.programmer.vga, rec.games.programmer.soundblaster
etc etc? For it seems to me that people have problems sorting out where
to post simply from the fact that they are working on a _game_...

   "Hmm, I need this SoundBlaster to work on my _game_, so naturally I
   ask on a _game_ group"

...and not recognizing the question to be hw-spesific. Is that really the
problem? That one cannot post to a group not having "game" in its name when
having a problem in connection with a game? It sure seems that way to me.

Disclaimer : I have nothing against PC's in general, and like to hack 
(read 'program') on PC's myself (if my old 8088 twin floppy can be called
PC by todays standards).


|> 
|>         Stephen Cyberman@Toz.Buffalo.NY.US
|>         Scripted at Fri  08-21-1992  11:27:07
|> 
|> ... Shhhh! Listen to the bitstreams . . .
|> --- Blue Wave/QWK v2.10
|>                                                                                                                          


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Roar Foshaug                                      (roarf@stud.cs.uit.no)
Department of Computer Science
University of Tromsoe                             'oe' is '\o{}' in Tex
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