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

Golden California Girls <gldncagrls@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
Keith Thompson wrote:
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.

Straw polls aren't used to elect because they have large bias in
them. Voting in the guideline discussion also isn't secret. It
simply isn't a valid sample. If the group wants a valid sample it
will need to do a CFV and find a vote taker. Otherwise it is all
just hot air.

I didn't claim that the results of the straw poll were definitive, but
they're a strong indication of the opinions of those who actually care
about the issue.

And how would the result of a CVF (call for votes) be any more valid?
Either a straw poll or a CFV can only obtain opinions from a
self-selected sample. And CFV's are generally used to decide whether
to create new newsgroups; I've never heard of one being used to decide
on the topicality guidelines for an existing newsgroup.

So what's *your* opinion? Should POSIX-specific issues be discussed
here; if so, what is the purpose of comp.unix.programmer? Should
Windows-specific issues be discussed here; if so, what is the purpose
of comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32? Should general algorithm
questions be discussed here; if so, what is the purpose of
comp.programming?

--
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst-u@xxxxxxx <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst>
Nokia
"We must do something. This is something. Therefore, we must do this."
-- Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn, "Yes Minister"
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