Re: In the matter of Herb Schildt

On 2009-10-05, Andrew C. Suttles <andrew.suttles@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Is this a moderated forum?

(Speaking in my capacity as mod, for once!)

No, it is a moderated newsgroup. My sole actions are to confirm, or
not-confirm, postings to the group.

Moderator, please clean this up. I thought this would be a helpful place to
learn and contribute to discussions regarding the use of my favorite programming
language - this is too much! I'm hoping this gets cleaned up and there will be
fruitful discussions here in the future.

I don't remove posts once they've been approved. I do not approve or
disapprove posts based on whether I think they are posted by kooks, or whether
they contain flames.

The charter says:

CHARTER:

For the discussion of C programming topics that are
NOT system-specific and NOT covered by the c.l.c. FAQ.
Obvious homework problems or simple questions that can
be answered by a quick look in any C text will be off-topic.

Examples: of actual topics posted lately:

Portability of TRUE/FALSE
goto's
char * vs void * in k&r

are examples of acceptable messages, while

kbdhit() function in Unix
How to write a getch() in Ultrix
Scanner Genius GS 4500
Virtual screen swapping

are examples of off-topic, unacceptable messages.

RATIONALE:

The noise level in comp.lang.c. has gotten unbearable
in the last year or so. Various ways of keeping things reasonable
have failed. The main problem is that many messages are posted by
new users who can't be expected to know that their question is a
FAQ, or (in some cases) to understand that their question is actually
an OS issue rather than a C issue. comp.lang.c.moderated will provide
a newsgroup that will benefit _all_ c programmers, especially those
at the intermediate-to-expert level.

comp.lang.c would still be left in place for more general discussion,
and for those topics that no one seems to agree on a place for.

MODERATION:

The moderator will reject off-topic messages, as well as incorrect
answers to questions (within reason).

It does not say "the moderator will reject incoherent rants".

In my opinion, discussion of how people teach and learn C is significantly
relevant to the discussion of C. Recommendations for and against books about
C strike me as topical; thus, so do discussions of such recommendations.

I don't really want to get into the line of determining which posts are
clear enough or coherent enough. The purpose of the group is to offer
a somewhat-filtered discussion environment.

(On a related note: I was having some issues authenticating with my
upstream news server, which was delaying article approvals, but I've
gone and hacked on the copy of inews I use to make it retry with a delay
after a particular error code, and the problem seems to be resolved.)

-s
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