Re: gateway between googlegroups and the list
[email protected] ("Jay Savage")
| Newsgroups | perl.beginners |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On 5/27/08, Jeff Peng <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 10:58 PM, Chas. Owens <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 10:41 AM, Jeff Peng <[email protected]> wrote: >>> I saw many people posted messages to both googlegroups and the beginner >>> list. >>> Why can't we make a gateway between googlegroups and this list? >>> Like python, people posted to either the list or groups, readers can >>> get messages at both locations. >> snip >> >> The problem isn't people posting to perl.beginners group and the >> perl.beginners list (the group is just an nntp gateway to the list). >> The problem is that people are posting to Perl Monks, >> comp.lang.perl.misc, and the perl.beginners list at the same time. >> Thus wasting the time of at least two groups of people. >> > > Then, can we make a gateway between comp.lang.perl.misc and this list? > That will save a lot time for both posters and answers. > No message should ever be posted to both groups. They exist to serve different needs. Anyone cross-posting is essentially spamming one list or the other. comp.lang.perl.misc is a group for experience programmers to ask complicated questions. Any question that is appropriate to CLPM is almost by definition beyond the scope of this list. And on the other hand, any question thatis appropriate to this list will annoy the readers of CLPM. That is as it should be. When this list tells you "interesting question, but not really appropriate to a beginner's list," you go post it CLPM. Otherwise, why have two groups at all? On the other hand, if you want to use google reader to read this group, you can do that. There is an smtp-nntp gateway, and you can subscribe to this group at http://groups.google.com/group/perl.beginners/ HTH, -- j -------------------------------------------------- This email and attachment(s): [ ] blogable; [ x ] ask first; [ ] private and confidential daggerquill [at] gmail [dot] com http://www.tuaw.com http://www.downloadsquad.com http://www.engatiki.org values of β will give rise to dom!