Re: [POSIX & Win32API] Getting the 'routing' informations

James Kuyper <jameskuyper@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
Keith Thompson wrote:
...
The current topicality guidelines are defined by common sense and a
general consensus of the regular posters (and attacked by trolls who
have nothing better to do with their time).

I don't think it's accurate to describe it as a consensus of the
regular posters. Despite their use of "regulars" as a pejorative, many
of the trolls are in fact among this group's most regular
posters. When you consider all of the regular posters, including those
who are trolls, there is at best, a solid majority in favor of any
particular topicality guidelines; there's nothing approaching actual
consensus.

Fair enough; make that "non-troll regulars". (I have no interest
in the opinions of posters who deliberately disrupt the newsgroup.
I speak only for myself on this matter, but I believe a number of
others agree with me.)

There was an informal survey a while ago about widening the
topicality guidelines. The majority opinion among those who
participated was that the narrow guidelines we've been trying to
follow should be kept. If you want to see the discussion, search
for the thread "Should we broaden the topicality of this group?",
started in late September 2007, and the summary post "Topicality
discussion - summary", posted October 2007.

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Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst-u@xxxxxxx <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst>
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