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DEVELOP > c-Plus-Plus |
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"Wei" |
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11 Dec 2004 02:52:20 PM |
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not many people here |
Why there are not many people here?
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| User: "Mike Wahler" |
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| Title: Re: [OT] not many people here |
11 Dec 2004 03:35:16 PM |
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"Wei" <digital1997@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:cpfmm5$qqo$1@news.tamu.edu...
Why there are not many people here?
Noboby "is here". A newsgroup is a place to post
and read articles on a particular subject. This
is not a chat room. I.e. it's not 'real-time'.
All that being said, my experiences here indicate
that literally thousands of people post and read
here.
Did you have a question or comment about the
C++ programming language?
-Mike
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| User: "Thomas Matthews" |
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| Title: Re: not many people here |
12 Dec 2004 11:10:32 PM |
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Wei wrote:
Why there are not many people here?
Depends on where here is.
"Wherever you go, there you are." -- Buckaroo Bonzai.
In some places, there are many people, others few.
"Oh, the places you will go."
"Come over to my house." -- Dr. Seuss
--
Thomas Matthews
C++ newsgroup welcome message:
http://www.slack.net/~shiva/welcome.txt
C++ Faq: http://www.parashift.com/c++-faq-lite
C Faq: http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/c-faq/top.html
alt.comp.lang.learn.c-c++ faq:
http://www.comeaucomputing.com/learn/faq/
Other sites:
http://www.josuttis.com -- C++ STL Library book
http://www.sgi.com/tech/stl -- Standard Template Library
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| User: "" |
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| Title: Re: not many people here |
13 Dec 2004 01:00:39 AM |
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You seem to have forgotten the best of all:
Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded. -- Yogi Berra.
IMO, this is a serious danger when a newsgroup gets too much traffic --
the best-informed and most intelligent people typically find (or
create) new places to talk, leaving behind a crowd of "nobodies". I
honestly don't mean that as an insult -- it just happens to be the word
in the quote. One need not be world-famous to make useful and helpful
contributions, but the fact remains that many of those with the big
names really have earned them and excessive, poorly-focused traffic
seems a nearly sure-fire way of alienating most of them.
At the risk of mixing threads, I'd suggest that this is one superb
reason that C# should NOT be discussed here. I believe this newsgroup
probably already has more traffic than is really optimal, and I believe
broadening the focus would, if anything, reduce the amount of useful
information being posted.
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Later,
Jerry.
The universe is a figment of its own imagination.
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