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wlsmith@valve.heart.rri.uwo.ca (Wayne Smith) writes:
: 
: With some of the negative comments about basic a few posts back, something
: tells me that a lot of basic trashers would come out of the woodwork and
: vote down comp.sys.basic.
: 
Ok, I'll bite.

I'm the one that newgroup'd alt.lang.basic, and I'm getting ready to post
an RFD for comp.os.ms-windows.visual-basic as it is, and I've already run
one usenet newsgroup ballot, so I guess I'll take this one on.

Lemme cobble together an RFD and we'll see what we can do about it.

One word of warning: when comp.lang.basic passes, we won't be able to
get rid of alt.lang.basic, Mr. Bruce Becker will send out "newgroup"
messages to negate any "rmgroup" messages for alt.lang.basic.  Sigh.

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In article <1992Nov13.145125.11147@julian.uwo.ca> wlsmith@valve.heart.rri.uwo.ca (Wayne Smith) writes:
>I have gotten a fair amount of e-mail asking "So why don't you start a
>RFD or RFV for comp.lang.basic.

Yes, why don't you?

>Sure, a lot of people (me included) get enough out of alt.lang.basic, but
>some places don't get alt groups, and there's also a principle involved here
>(that a major programming language is kept out of the comp.lang hierarchy).

There's no principle involved. It hasn't been proposed, so what do you
know, there isn't one.

>
>With some of the negative comments about basic a few posts back, something
>tells me that a lot of basic trashers would come out of the woodwork and
>vote down comp.sys.basic.

Maybe. Maybe not. But you *GUARANTEED* a good hundred or two "no" votes
by harassing comp.lang.pop, a newsgroup which never bothered us before.

>
>Surely a vote has been tried before?  Does anyone know the results?

I don't believe so. But the odds just went down drastically. Guess
who's responsible.

-T

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boutell@isis.cshl.org (Tom Boutell) writes:
>Sure, a lot of people (me included) get enough out of alt.lang.basic, but
>some places don't get alt groups, and there's also a principle involved here
>(that a major programming language is kept out of the comp.lang hierarchy).

"kept out"?  What are you talking about?

>With some of the negative comments about basic a few posts back, something
>tells me that a lot of basic trashers would come out of the woodwork and
>vote down comp.sys.basic.

Hey, I'd vote against comp.sys.basic, and I'm certainly no BASIC
trasher.  As for comp.lang.basic, I think it would probably pass.  Or
at least fail due to too few votes, rather than too many no votes.

>Surely a vote has been tried before?  Does anyone know the results?

"Surely"?  What are you talking about?  Such a vote has never been
proposed until very recently.  I think you're being overly paranoid.

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