Re: need information on the following items

"Alastair" <adadachanji@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
[snip]
> Ok, I'm sorry - I have been having a hard time since I started using
> this whole newsgroup thing yesterday... I have just found that people
> are a bit hard/sarcastic on you if you ask a "wrong" question! -
> anyway... no problems here!

Part of the problem is that we get a *lot* of off-topic questions
here. Many of them are unintentional, e.g., from people who assume
that anything relating to any C implementation is topical here. Too
many, though, are from trolls who know the conventions we've been
following here for many years, but insist on disrupting the newsgroup.

It's been suggested that we should expand the scope of the newsgroup
to include implementation-specific topics as long as they're related
to C. Our neighbors in comp.lang.c++ tried that some years ago, and
it almost destroyed the newsgroup.

The result is sometimes that an innocent newbie will sometimes get the
brunt of years of frustration. (The trolls find this all amusing for
some unfathomable reason.)

Be patient, don't take it personally, and ignore the trolls.
And welcome to the group.

--
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst-u@xxxxxxx <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst>
San Diego Supercomputer Center <*> <http://users.sdsc.edu/~kst>
We must do something. This is something. Therefore, we must do this.
.

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