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Re: Newsgroups

From Gareth Owen <gwowen@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.c
Subject Re: Newsgroups
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Date 2015-11-08 19:42 +0000
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gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) writes:

> Regarding my comment about "not the original design", it is my fond belief
> that the original design of Usenet and newsgroups - and the way it should
> be - is as a peer-to-peer discussion.  That is, intelligent, capable people
> discussing amongst themselves, in a peer-to-peer fashion.  

The trouble with that is what you actually end up with is the
standards-monkeys debating the exact meaning of non-normative footnotes.
It's like theological discussion if you were already in hell.

The reason these standards-monkeys are so keen to keep the scope of the
newsgroup so narrow (no POSIX, no pthreads, no GC, absolutely no Windows
C-API) is because they need to feel like their ability to regurgitate
chapter-and-verse marks them out as the smartest guy in the
room. They've no interest in questions that permit differences of
opinion *Ovt Uv gb Gvz Eragfpu* (see "Malloc() - casting return value of).

[Waits for someone to tell them that there's no capital M in malloc()]

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