🚀 go-pugleaf

There is a reason why the gnu.g++ and comp.lang.c++ newsgroups were
linked.  It was not, as Jim ADCOCK suggests, because one or the other
was not strong enough to stand on its own readership.  Rather, it was
because many people (a vast majority of those who voted) wanted to
share experiences and information between the two groups.  Here are
some examples where multiple inheritance (for newsgroups) is useful:

  1.  A naive G++ user has a question about overloading operator+.
      Should s/he ask in the g++ forum or the comp.lang.c++ forum?
      Usually the answer is unclear, so people cross-post.  As a
      matter of fact, one of the reasons that these groups were merged
      was because there was so much cross-posting going on.

  2.  An unspecified C++ user finds that cfront and g++ have different
      behavior for a complicated inheritance lattice.  Both results
      are unexpected (this has happened).  Where does s/he post?

  3.  A C++ expert has just released a cool, freely redistributable
      C++ interface to X/NeWS.  Where should the announcement go?

  4.  A bored graduate student hears about the above library, but
      doesn't know where to get it.  To which group should he pose his
      request for information?

The list goes on and on.  Everybody has their own quirks about what
they will and will not tolerate about people's postings.  Some people
get upset when they see postings about how clever they were at
painting themselves into a 640K address space.  Some people are
dismayed by other's blithe acceptance of UNIX.

If it absolutely ruins your day that somebody doesn't understand how
to overload operator+, how segmented architectures are really better
than large linear address spaces, or how Apple and Lotus are taking
away programmer's freedoms, I believe that there is a newsreading
service which, for a small fee, will delete these messages before you
have a chance to read them, and you need never know they were ever
written.

In the mean time, please don't ask to have everybody's service
disconnected because you don't like yours.

Michael