Re: The problems in comp.lang.c

On 23/3/2008 23:57, Richard Heathfield wrote:
jacob navia said:


Richard Heathfield wrote:

[snip]


Likewise, I assure you. But I think we differ over who we think the
morons are. If you don't like my articles, why not killfile me?


I would say the same. Good advice. You could use it yourself and
stop answering my posts.


Since it is in your commercial interest to have as few people as possible pointing out your misunderstandings, blunders, and product plugs, your response does not surprise me at all. It may surprise *you*, however, to discover that I actually reply to relatively few of your articles. (It may surprise others, too.)

This is the sort of thing I was talking about - a pointlessly negative post. Every article of jacob's I've read has been well-informed and useful - and if his posts put C in its wider context, instead of being narrowly focussed on minor details, then so much the better!

What I really can't understand is why people are /so/ exclusive. A reasonable person would say that threads (which will certainly be part of the next C++ standard, and I believe are also being considered for the next C standard) are a topic of interest to C programmers, whereas the breeding habits of gazelle aren't. And if something's borderline, why not "be liberal in what you accept"?

The reason it seems crazy to me is that it costs you (in Thunder Bird at least) a single key-press to *ignore* a thread that you're not interested in - you don't need to reply to it, or even take any time seeing any more posts in the thread once you've ignored it. Making a series of "that's off topic" posts takes /much/ more time than just pressing the ignore key!
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