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Subject: Re: Moderation: Topicality

Author: Dave Gomboc

Date: 00:11:45 06/04/00

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On June 03, 2000 at 11:35:30, KarinsDad wrote:

>On June 02, 2000 at 18:49:00, Dave Gomboc wrote:
>
>>I read KD's original post and thought it was fine, mainly because I assumed KD
>>was working on his chess program and ran into a problem.  Okay, I really
>>wouldn't like to see 100 messages about C++ specifics, but I don't have a
>>problem with someone who is writing chess (or similar, e.g. othello) software
>>asking for some help.
>>
>>Nonetheless, it's probably true that KD could get better feedback in
>>comp.lang.c++.moderated.  There have already been a few things said that, to the
>>best of my knowledge, are clearly incorrect.  But I think that all I'll say at
>>this point is that the ISO C++ standard specifies proper behaviour, that some
>>compilers in common use today are very far from compliance, and that people
>>using those compilers shouldn't make claims about the capabilities and/or
>>limitations of C++ based upon what their compiler does or doesn't do.
>>
>>Dave
>
>
>I agree that there should not be a whole bunch of messages on this topic.
>
>However, I contend two things:
>
>1) There were 4 posts on the topic, and now this is the 2nd post on the
>moderation of whether it is topical or not. A total of 6 posts when all I wanted
>was to see if anyone could solve the problem for my chess program. We have
>people go off with jokes for a half dozen posts virtually every week here where
>their jokes have NOTHING to do with a chess program.

Please feel free to send moderator email if a long joke thread appears and
bothers you.  None of us moderators are reading all of the posts.  Sometimes,
when no moderator email is arriving, I don't read CCC for a few days in a row.

The rest of your post read to me as if you were angry about what I wrote.  Given
that I commented that I thought your original post was fine, I'm a bit puzzled
about that, but <shrug>.

Dave



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