Sebastian Palm  wrote: 
  
 >Many others have already commented on the lack of a comp.lang.csharp group, 
 >which might, and in all probability *will*, lead to the proposed 
 >comp.std.csharp being turned into a forum for implementation questions, 
 >rather than standards discussion. And so, I have to wonder, being a (more or 
 >less) total newbie to news.groups and not at all involved in the issue at 
 >hand: Is there a chance of *getting* a comp.lang.csharp group? Is anyone 
 >prepared to propose one? 
  
 If it becomes enough of a concern (to the proponents), they could 
 very well choose to ADD that to their current C# proposal.  The ballot 
 would then have a YES/NO/ABSTAIN selection for each proposed group, 
 so that it is possible to create neither, both, or either group through 
 one ballot.  BUT it would mean the proponents do the extra work of 
 determining the RATIONALE and building a CHARTER for the extra group, 
 which is not fun and is not something they have much interest in. 
  
 If they do not choose this option, and the group goes nuts with 
 implementation traffic, at some point standards folks will either 
 give up on the group, or someone will take the initiative and 
 propose a new group.  The problem is that depending on the situation 
 and the approach taken, getting off-topic traffic out of a group 
 can be difficult.  Things tend to work better if off-topic folks take 
 the initiative to pull traffic into their own group, rather than if 
 the standards folks take the initiative to try to push traffic out 
 of their group. 
  
 ru 
  
 -- 
 My standard proposals rant: 
 Quality, usefulness, merit, or non-newsgroups popularity of a topic 
 is more or less irrelevant in creating a new Big-8 newsgroup. 
 Usenet popularity is the primary consideration. 
  
 --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05 
  * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)