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skyhawk@milton.acs.washington.edu (Scott Northrop) writes:

> I fail to see why gnu.misc.discuss is not adequate for design
> discussions.  It's there, why not use it?

bitbug@lonewolf.sun.com (James Buster) writes:

> Because gnu.misc.discuss seems primarily for political discussions.
> I want a newsgroup exclusively for software design issues. Politics
> has its place, and it isn't there.

There is of course a great deal of politics goes into software
design. One of the most important things that FSF will do is
reduce that stupidity.

This said I heartily approve of the proposal. Any takers?

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Major                 | if we wish to count lines of code, we should regard
major@pyrmania.oz.au  | them not as "lines produced" but as "lines spent".
		      | The current conventional wisdom is so foolish as
		      | to book them on the wrong side of the ledger - EWD