Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Tim Rentsch Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Programming exercise/challenge Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2021 23:38:34 -0800 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 18 Message-ID: <86pn1pjyth.fsf@linuxsc.com> References: <86wnxwkyol.fsf@linuxsc.com> <97ebd421-8f0f-4621-bdb9-96d655ba9d9an@googlegroups.com> <86czybpljj.fsf@linuxsc.com> <1ebc19c3-093d-4bc0-b680-aedbb9576eb5n@googlegroups.com> <868s8uozxo.fsf@linuxsc.com> <6a2e3784-1cb3-4d6a-99c2-6ac650dd6fben@googlegroups.com> <864kjbo2ql.fsf@linuxsc.com> <44c73f50-33af-43bb-afa2-a3b0244c7160n@googlegroups.com> <865z3nm8f9.fsf@linuxsc.com> <5049cc01-a549-4022-8f4c-deda87ab20c9n@googlegroups.com> <87tur639y3.fsf@nosuchdomain.example.com> <5c948a85-873e-49af-9df8-34a0a971c692n@googlegroups.com> <87pn1u2dqi.fsf@nosuchdomain.example.com> <9859d1d8-7bce-4c91-91b5-cfa6e7c0e732n@googlegroups.com> <8635yml61n.fsf@linuxsc.com> <20210127191623.7d050250a4226a8f85573258@g{oogle}mail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Injection-Info: reader02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="fd8ef1eef24682511c6bbfeeeac524cb"; logging-data="13350"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/XkzLmFp8ZNj61AQU48JL/S6ohfzk6EoA=" User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:0lp7Gdfys39QrOb8b9jll4wWOz4= sha1:SRPNuwNuwbOqoE9ZN4nxWvsl5aY= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.c:158674 Anton Shepelev writes: > Tim Rentsch: > >> I strongly recommend finding both a better newsreader and >> a better source for access to news groups. Google groups >> is just a big bucket of shit now, which is sad because it >> used to be actually pretty useful. > > Yet sensitive people abhorred GoogleGropus in its infancy: > > http://twovoyagers.com/improve-usenet.org I'm not sure we are talking about the same thing. In any case I didn't say that the early Google groups was great, only that it was pretty useful. And I'm not including anything to do with posting rather but just searching and reading.