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[Tapani Tarvainen]

In article <16307 at smoke.brl.mil> gwyn at smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) writes:

>This newsgroup used to be a useful tool for the working C programmer,
>but recently it seems to have degenerated into a vehicle for ignorant
>people to pester the net instead of going to the trouble to learn the
>C language themselves.  Perhaps we've been contributing to this by
>helping too much when we should have been saying "GO STUDY THE
>AVAILABLE INTRODUCTORY C LITERATURE AND DON'T BOTHER US UNTIL YOU
>UNDERSTAND THE BASICS".

>I don't think I can justify spending any more time helping out, so I'm
>unsubscribing from comp.lang.c.

I'm sorry to hear that (and I hope you'll stay around in comp.std.c).

Perhaps it would be a good idea to start a moderated group, say,
comp.lang.c.gurus or something like that, if only a suitable
moderator (or several) could be found (volunteers?).
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Tapani Tarvainen    (tarvaine at jyu.fi, tarvainen at finjyu.bitnet)