Only Forth also ideas

Only Forth also Ideas for you

You are invited to a newsgroup where there is Forth and only Forth. 
Good stuff. Questions get answered quickly. There is no spam and
almost no discussion about lemmings, politics, "he said she said" or
other OT subjects.  It is not moderated, we use peer pressure only.

This would be the Win32Forth newsgroup and your invited to join us for
discussions.  Currently we have 172 reader/subscribers.

We have a content version control (Tortoise CVS)setup so it is easy to
help with improvements and get the latest changes.

    To visit our group on the web, go to:
      http://www.**--****.com/ 

That's not a newsgroup, that's a yahoo web-based forum.  IMHO, it would 
be preferable in many ways to apply some of that "peer pressure" here 
instead.  Point by point, questions seem to get answered quickly here, 
and there is little spam.  That's the good news.

The bad news is that lemmings, politics, and "he said, she said" and 
other OT subjects are unfortunately very common here, and probably will 
be until Jeff Fox takes another vacation from the group.

Ed

    I find this group much easier to follow by adding that name to my kill
file.  ;)

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What about
John A Peters
Anton Ertl
Julian Noble
Stephen Pelc
Brad Eckert
Bernd Paysan
Dirk Busch

Also some like Tom Zimmer don't post here these days

George Hubert

I might consider joining
*EXCEPT*

/BEGIN TIRADE
Yahoo! has not a "privacy policy" but its antithesis.
For full access to any Yahoo! group you seem to give up ANY concept of 
privacy.
I complained to them, but they could not be bothered replying.
Read their "Privacy Policy" carefully.
My interpretation is that you have *NONE* !

When I considered joining another group I was asked for age, sex, 
income level etc etc as well as much too much personally identifiable 
information. And just what is stored cryptically encoded in those 
cookies you must enable?
*CAVEAT EMPTOR*
/END TIRADE

P.S. Anyone with appropriate clout, please "rattle" Yahoo!'s corporate 
cage ;}

From: "Richard Owlett" < XXXX@XXXXX.COM >


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When you sign-up for Yahoo Groups, they may ask you those things but you do
not have to answer them.  We have readers and subscribers who have not
filled in any of that information. Most of the members in Win32Forth have
filled in some of those things, but in another chat group for the San
Francisco PC users group there are at least two members where the Yahoo
Profile states ( Not Available )

So please give it another try and see how many fields you can avoid filling
in .  I don't think we need .anything other than a screen name and an e-mail
address. The e-mail address could be a throwaway address but it is most
convenient to have it so the chat messages can be e-mailed to you rather
than using the somewhat clunky online Web interface.

Thank you for the feedback, I find it highly valuable.  There may be several
others who feel the same way you do.

John A. Peters

Also you can use a yahoo.com email address and not get emails, but
rather visit the web page to read the posts.  So you can be as invisible
as you like.  The cookies are just so you don't have to log in on every
page you visit.  You can even delete all the cookies after you vist the
group pages.  

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These seem to have a stronger interest in the hardware end of things
than the language end. Forth covers such a broad spectrum that one
person's "favorites" list will only be a subset of the useful
contributors.

Brad

Let's hope that it is a long a one, or a permanent one.

Let's hope that it is a long a one, or a permanent one.

Finally ready to join the back of the mob.  Brave leadership.

Please don't.


I haven't seen any questions, rather just a few more cowards joining
the mob.  Since there are no questions I will let the other people
give all the misleading or wrong answers to such questions, calculated
or otherwise as that seems to be what people want to hear.
 

Unlikely.


I often have just felt sorry for the people who accept all the wrong
answers that they get here.  I should just accept that they want the
wrong answers and leave it at that.
 

No, too many {*filter*}s jumping in to create more confusion.  If there are
really that many {*filter*}s who so love the fake answers and don't want
reliable information about the subjects that I do know about then fine.
I will simply accept that a loud vocal majority prefer the confusion
and object to any efforts to straighten it out.  I do feel sorry for
those who only want one view of things presented but once again they
have spoken.


May I be excused?  comp.lang.forth is just too sickening.  The blind 
leading the blind to be just too sad to watch.  The one's pretending
to be blind to join in are sadder to watch.  If they really want to
play that game, holding hands and drifting toward the cliff, well
enjoy the ride.

I haven't seen any questions to answer so I think I will just
excuse myself.  If I think anything looks like a serious question
or is asking for a response I will keep the parting comments short
and succinct.

*snort*

And this ad hominem helps the signal to noise ratio how?  You've just
turned what was a simple announcement about another place to discuss
Forth and turned it into a flame.

I don't agree with everything Jeff Fox says or all of his methods, but
to single him out like that is pure garbage.  I've seen people here
attacked, belittled ect. simply because they were "enthusiastic" about
ideas outside of "mainstream Forth".  In fact the last time Jeff
Fox "came out of vacation" that's precisely what was going on.
Someone listed ColorForth enthusiasts as one reason for Forth's
"decline", ColorForth enthusiasts tried to talk rationally about
their accomplishments, and things got noisy (and ugly IMO) rather
quick.  Right before that ColorForth, MISC and other "Chuck Moore"
ideas had been barely mentioned.  (Oh, I know.  The person that
started this will deny it yet again.)  Jeff jumped back in to
respond to the noise.  

Regards,

John M. Drake