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From: croyle@gelemna.ft-wayne.in.us (Don Croyle)
Newsgroups: alt.lang.delphi,alt.comp.lang.borland-delphi,comp.lang.pascal.delphi.components.usage,comp.lang.pascal.delphi.components.writing,comp.lang.pascal.delphi.misc,comp.sources.delphi
Subject: The weekly mini-FAQ about the Delphi newsgroups' reorganization
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Date: 02 Jun 1997 21:00:01 GMT
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Archive-name: clpd-Mini-FAQ.txt
Posting-Frequency: weekly
Last-modified: March 3, 1997

A reorganization of the comp.lang.pascal.delphi.* hierarchy took place 
in early 1996.  If you any of the newsgroups listed are not carried on 
your news server and you want them to be, ask your news admin about 
them:

NEW GROUPS: (created April 18, 1996)
comp.lang.pascal.delphi.advocacy  
  Contentious issues related to Delphi.

comp.lang.pascal.delphi.announce 
  Delphi related announcements. (Moderated)
  Article submission: clpda@gelemna.ft-wayne.in.us
  Admin contact address: clpda-request@gelemna.ft-wayne.in.us
  Posting guidelines: 
     http://www.infonex.com/~dacroyle/clpda/clpda-guidelines.txt

comp.lang.pascal.delphi.components.misc
  General component issues.

comp.lang.pascal.delphi.components.usage
  Using pre-written components.

comp.lang.pascal.delphi.components.writing
  Writing Delphi components.

comp.sources.delphi 
  Delphi and ObjectPascal source code. (Moderated)
  Article submission: csd@gelemna.ft-wayne.in.us
  Admin contact address: csd-request@gelemna.ft-wayne.in.us
  Posting guidelines: 
     http://www.infonex.com/~dacroyle/clpda/csd-guidelines.txt


UNCHANGED GROUPS:
comp.lang.pascal.delphi.databases
  Database aspects of Borland Delphi.

comp.lang.pascal.delphi.misc
  General issues with Borland Delphi.


OBSOLETE GROUP:
comp.lang.pascal.delphi.components
  Writing components in Borland Delphi.
(Replaced by comp.lang.pascal,delphi.components.writing.  It was
rmgrouped on 17 June 1996.)


ALT GROUPS:
alt.lang.delphi
alt.comp.lang.borland-delphi
(Created with poorly formatted control messages, mass rmgrouped and
poorly propagated, but if they exist on your site you can try to use
them.)

GROUPS NOT TO USE:
alt.online-service.delphi
(Online service in the sense of Compuserve or AOL.  Among other
things, they provide Internet access to people in the US and UK.  They
had the name first.)

clari.sports.local.mid-atlantic.pennsylvania.philadelphia
  Phila. sports (Moderated)
(I would have thought that this one was blindingly obvious, but it 
seems not.)

comp.lang.pascal.borland
  Borland's Pascal incl. Turbo Pascal
(They have made it quite clear that they do not want to hear about
Delphi.  Please respect their wishes.)

=====
This mini-FAQ is intended to provide people with some idea of where
best to post.  In my opinion, the hierarchy is in desperate need of a
"Welcome" FAQ to spell out what groups are for what and provide some
basic netiquette pointers.  I don't, however, think that it would be a
good idea for me to combine maintaining such a FAQ with moderating the
announce group.  Any volunteers?

[Posted in two blocks of newsgroups in order to stay within the 200
character limit on Newsgroups line.]
-- 
Approval for posting does not constitute an endorsement.
Articles posted to comp.lang.pascal.delphi.announce are archived at:
WWW: http://www.infonex.com/~dacroyle/clpda