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Re: RfD: Rationalization of talk.*

From ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram)
Newsgroups news.groups
Subject Re: RfD: Rationalization of talk.*
Date 2026-05-16 11:11 +0000
Organization Stefan Ram
Message-ID <groups-20260516115225@ram.dialup.fu-berlin.de> (permalink)
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gmc@metro.cx (Koen Martens) wrote or quoted:
>That is, indeed, what happened. I did not make that up. I've
>had two people I tried to get interested tell me exactly that
>after they gave it a try for a bit.

  There have not been any discussions in comp.lang.haskell for
  years. I posted to it recently, and immediately got two good
  answers. It just worked, like that Latin dictionary that rests
  on your shelf for years, but when you then need to look up a
  Latin word one day, it's there. No need to throw it away.

  Now, I'm not a newbie, but those newbies, they just do not
  exist. But Usenet oldtimers still do exists. So maybe it's more
  efficient to keep the oldtimers in (possible) than to get newbies
  in (won't happen whether you delete some newsgroups or not).

  I also remember how Lars asked a Perl question on 2026-01-14 
  off topic in comp.os.linux.misc:

|Posted here, beause I can't find a live perl group; if you
|know of one, please refer me there.

  and Eli replied:

|I subscribe to comp.lang.perl.misc, and I suspect many others do, too.
|We just don't have questions coming in.

  . So maybe Lars learned something and will post his Perl question
  on topic the next time.

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Re: RfD: Rationalization of talk.* "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com> - 2026-05-15 15:48 +0000
  Re: RfD: Rationalization of talk.* gmc@metro.cx (Koen Martens) - 2026-05-15 16:10 +0000
    Re: RfD: Rationalization of talk.* "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com> - 2026-05-15 16:36 +0000
    Re: RfD: Rationalization of talk.* ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) - 2026-05-16 11:11 +0000
      Re: RfD: Rationalization of talk.* "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com> - 2026-05-16 11:52 +0000
      Re: RfD: Rationalization of talk.* not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2026-05-17 09:24 +1000

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