On 2013-03-29 05:56:46 +0000, dagz said:
On Thursday, March 28, 2013 8:44:43 PM UTC-5, D Finnigan wrote:What gives you that impression? What is readily apparent to me is that fewer people post to it.Yes, I suppose that's a more accurate statement.
A long time ago there were a good many non-technical users who read this newsgroup and because of the high volume of posts, it made sense to split out the programming group. Nowadays, I don't see much point to having a separate group. It seems to methat almost everyone who posts, at least, is comfortable with programming topics
and the low volume makes it no big deal to skip even for people who aren't