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comp.lang.php Up for Discussion

Posted by michael on from the usenet-doesn't-want-to-go-on-the-cart dept.

Agelmar writes "A Request for Discussion (RFD) for the creation of comp.lang.php has been posted to news.announce.newgroups. This RFD begins a period of discussion on whether or not the new group is a good idea and/or appropriate. After a period of approximately 21-28 days, a Call for Votes will be posted, at which time people can vote on the creation of the new group. (There can be no voting at this time)."

4 of 16 comments (clear)

  1. This article should have no comments... by stienman · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Obviously if you wanted to discuss this or share your two cents you should do it in the newsgroup.

    Duh.

    -Adam

  2. Fragmentation? by knabar · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I am concerned that having too many newsgroups for the same topic/language will just make it harder to run a discussion and get answers to questions in a reasonable amount of time... There already are alt.php and alt.comp.lang.php and others. I understand the reason why they want to do this (alt.* groups are not carried by many news servers), but to make this new group useful, they should then get rid of alt.comp.lang.php. But hey, one can always post in all of them :-)

    1. Re:Fragmentation? by elemental23 · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Alt.* groups are also not archived by Google

      Are you sure about that?

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  3. So... by LadyLucky · · Score: 4, Funny
    We're talking about people who will be talking about people talking.

    Oh my.

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