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From: Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: Topicality (Was: Informal discussion: comp.lang.rust?)
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2025 17:55:19 +0200
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On Mon, 10 Mar 2025 15:42:41 -0000 (UTC)
cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) wrote:

> In article <vqn04q$6vsu$1@news.xmission.com>,
> Kenny McCormack <gazelle@shell.xmission.com> wrote:
> >In article <vqmt6a$abj$2@reader1.panix.com>,
> >Dan Cross <cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net> wrote:  
> >>In article <vqmofm$6r9q$1@news.xmission.com>,
> >>[snip]
> >>Kenny McCormack <gazelle@shell.xmission.com> wrote:  
> >>>Keith will tell you that it is off-topic here.  
> >>
> >>Topicality is part of the reason the Big-8 guidance for
> >>introducing these discussions recommends cross-posting to groups
> >>where the topic comes up semi-regularly, but setting follow ups
> >>to news.groups.proposals, as I had done, and have done again
> >>here.  ;-)  
> >
> >Note that I did not say: Your post is off-topic.  
> 
> I did not say that said that you did?  ;-)
> 
> >I said: Keith will tell you that it is off-topic here.  
> 
> Noted.  My post was meant to explain that I chose to implement
> the guidance from the Big-8 process on new group creation, which
> encourages posting to groups where interested parties may be
> reading for discovery, but with follow-ups set to n.g.p to
> discourage off-topic drift and fragmented discussion.
> 
> Given that the guidance is coming directly from Big-8,
> complaints about topicality, from Keith or anyone else, seem
> misplaced.
> 

If you don't follow c.lang.c then you probably don't know that the
person you are answering is not even a troll. He best characterized as
stalker.


> So far, as near as I can tell, the only person who's actually
> engaged with the proposal was Tim Rentsch, who responded in
> in comp.programming that he was in favor of comp.lang.rust.
> 
> 	- Dan C.
> 

Personally, I have nothing against comp.lang.rust, but have my doubts
about perspectives of following. Rust is not so much a computer language
as a sort of subculture with very strong tendency for advocacy. It
(subculture) already has its own established discussion forums and
unlikely to be interested in Usenet group.