BorlandTalk.com Borland discussion newsgroups   Archives   FAQ   Search   Memberlist   Usergroups   Register   Profile   Log in to check your private messages   Log in  Newsgroups Should Be Restructured Again          BorlandTalk.com Forum Index -> Delphi Non-Technical View previous topic :: View next topic   Author Message Mike Vance Guest Posted: Mon May 24, 2004 4:22 pm    Post subject: Newsgroups Should Be Restructured Again It would be pretty nice if the forums would appear in the following manner: borland.public.delphiWin32.non-technical borland.public.delphiWin32.rtl borland.public.delphiWin32.vcl-using borland.public.delphiWin32.vcl-writing Instead of what I now have to look at: borland.public.delphi.non-technical borland.public.delphi.rtl borland.public.delphi.rtl.general borland.public.delphi.rtl.win32 borland.public.delphi.vcl.components.using borland.public.delphi.vcl.components.using.general borland.public.delphi.vcl.components.using.win32 borland.public.delphi.vcl.components.writing borland.public.delphi.vcl.components.writing.general borland.public.delphi.vcl.components.writing.win32 Delphi.Net forums can be listed in the forum of borland.public.delphiNet.* The way things are set up currently, I have to look at twice or even thrice the number of forums than should be necessary: first the generic version, then the Win32 version. The problem is that sometimes Win32- specific comments are actually posted in the generic forum. So there are several distinct advantages of renaming the newsgroups: fewer newsgroups need to be subscribed to and browsed to find the needed information, the newsgroup listing would look cleaner and more logical, and persons browsing the newsgroup would be more assured that the forum they are reading has information specific to the version of Delphi they wish to read about. Currently it is too easy to post Win32-specific or Net-specific issues in the generic version of the forum. Back to top Ian Boyd Guest Posted: Mon May 24, 2004 5:18 pm    Post subject: Re: Newsgroups Should Be Restructured Again i may not like how they are now, after their little switch-aroo. But google is already not caching the new groups. i don't want to make it worse by doing even more restructuring. Yes it's broken, but only _mostly_ broken. Mostly broken: slightly unbroken. "Mike Vance" <nospam (AT) nospam (DOT) com> wrote Quote: It would be pretty nice if the forums would appear in the following manner: borland.public.delphiWin32.non-technical borland.public.delphiWin32.rtl borland.public.delphiWin32.vcl-using borland.public.delphiWin32.vcl-writing Instead of what I now have to look at: borland.public.delphi.non-technical borland.public.delphi.rtl borland.public.delphi.rtl.general borland.public.delphi.rtl.win32 borland.public.delphi.vcl.components.using borland.public.delphi.vcl.components.using.general borland.public.delphi.vcl.components.using.win32 borland.public.delphi.vcl.components.writing borland.public.delphi.vcl.components.writing.general borland.public.delphi.vcl.components.writing.win32 Delphi.Net forums can be listed in the forum of borland.public.delphiNet.* The way things are set up currently, I have to look at twice or even thrice the number of forums than should be necessary: first the generic version, then the Win32 version. The problem is that sometimes Win32- specific comments are actually posted in the generic forum. So there are several distinct advantages of renaming the newsgroups: fewer newsgroups need to be subscribed to and browsed to find the needed information, the newsgroup listing would look cleaner and more logical, and persons browsing the newsgroup would be more assured that the forum they are reading has information specific to the version of Delphi they wish to read about. Currently it is too easy to post Win32-specific or Net-specific issues in the generic version of the forum. Back to top Shawn Oster Guest Posted: Mon May 24, 2004 11:01 pm    Post subject: Re: Newsgroups Should Be Restructured Again I'd agree just on the grounds that I always forget what newsgroup is correct, nativeapi.win32 or language.delphi.win32. There should be wide range of newsgroups to help focus people's attention but I feel they "bleed" too much into each other. Now while we are dreaming *grin* I'd really, really like to see a borland.public.oodesign instead of b.p.delphi.oodesign and b.p.csharp.oodesign. I don't really understand why there are two groups when OOD tends to usually be about higher concepts and it isn't hard to translate high level concepts between the two languages. Shawn Back to top David Clegg Guest Posted: Tue May 25, 2004 2:18 am    Post subject: Re: Newsgroups Should Be Restructured Again Shawn Oster wrote: Quote: Now while we are dreaming grin I'd really, really like to see a borland.public.oodesign instead of b.p.delphi.oodesign and b.p.csharp.oodesign. This gets my vote too! Quote: I don't really understand why there are two groups when OOD tends to usually be about higher concepts and it isn't hard to translate high level concepts between the two languages. Perhaps so the oo concepts being discussed can be augmented with code snippets. 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