On Wed, 09 Jun 2010 22:21:06 -0700, "Mihai N."
<nmihai_year_2000@yahoo.com> wrote:
This newsgroup has been more than a "forum" to me. I have life
long friends
from participation here like you, Joe, G, Ajay, Mihai, all the
other Davids,
Scott, many of whom I've met in person and shared cheesecake. Our
camaraderie here has grown beyond just answering tech questions.
In the midst of it all we've become friends. I think we will
stay friends :o) but I will miss this kind of banter and the
chance to talk about other things besides the answer to the
immediate question at hand.
I really hope we will manage to keep the connection alive :-)
It was really nice hangin out with all of you, virtualy and in
reality.
support) and it's easy to point to them using an HTML link. We
are pretty tech-savvy so we have a different perspective, but if
you consider someone like my wife looking for an answer she'd be
much more comfortable with a browser interface. I'm sure they
considered all of this in the decision process.
But I guess your wife is not a MFC programmer.
While I can buy the argument of non-geeks using the forums for
Office, or even Express, I would be very worried to hear that
someone who claims to be a programmer is puzzled by newsgroups.
But hey, it is what it is :-)
I guess you should blame Borland for developing Turbo Pascal, a
programming tool with a graphics oriented interface. That made us
all lazy and now we just click and drag instead of programming and
rely on the compiler to find our errors (syntactic ones, at least).
We should all go back to Edlin and learn how to do things for
ourselves!
OK, we can go back to MASM and WordStar and if I mention the
keypunch and submitting decks of cards hoping for less than 12 hour
turnaround time I would be revealing my age.
Yes, some of us have been through all that. :-)
posting. Then scroll much further to see each entry. For a long thread
that is just a LOT of scrolling. And why do we need a Reply button for