Why 3 NGs for php?

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  • Al. C
    #1

    Why 3 NGs for php?

    Why are there:

    alt.comp.lang.p hp
    alt.php
    comp.lang.php

    on the SBC-Yahoo (DSL) list of NGs. Just curious.

    Al C.

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    • Tony Marston
      #2
      Re: Why 3 NGs for php?

      PHP is now accepted as a *proper* language, so it was given a proper
      newsgroup in comp.lang.php. As the alt.whatever groups are now deprecated
      only Neanderthals still use them.

      --
      Tony Marston

      Tony Marston's Web Site
      http://www.tonymarston.net
      This is Tony Marston's web site, containing personal information plus pages devoted to the Uniface 4GL development language, XML and XSL, PHP and MySQL, and a bit of COBOL




      "Al. C" <no.spam.acanto n@adams-blake.no.spam.c om> wrote in message
      news:ENujd.1887 2$6q2.4133@news svr14.news.prod igy.com...[color=blue]
      > Why are there:
      >
      > alt.comp.lang.p hp
      > alt.php
      > comp.lang.php
      >
      > on the SBC-Yahoo (DSL) list of NGs. Just curious.
      >
      > Al C.
      >[/color]


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        • Warren Oates
          #3
          Re: Why 3 NGs for php?

          In article <ENujd.18872$6q 2.4133@newssvr1 4.news.prodigy. com>,
          "Al. C" <no.spam.acanto n@adams-blake.no.spam.c om> wrote:

          :alt.comp.lang. php
          :alt.php
          :comp.lang.php

          I was wondering that. If you know how Usenet works, though, it probably
          goes back to some obscure (flame) war about what's on-topic and what's
          not. Or maybe the people who set up the alt.* groups didn't notice that
          there was a comp.lang group available.
          --
          Looks like more of Texas to me.
          .... Arizona, where the nights are warm and the roads are straight.

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            • Matthias Esken
              #4
              Re: Why 3 NGs for php?

              Al. C wrote:
              [color=blue]
              > Why are there:
              >
              > alt.comp.lang.p hp
              > alt.php
              > comp.lang.php[/color]

              History.

              Noone removed the alt-groups when comp.lang.php was created.

              Regards,
              Matthias

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                • Tim Roberts
                  #5
                  Re: Why 3 NGs for php?

                  "Al. C" <no.spam.acanto n@adams-blake.no.spam.c om> wrote:[color=blue]
                  >
                  >Why are there:
                  >
                  >alt.comp.lang. php
                  >alt.php
                  >comp.lang.ph p
                  >
                  >on the SBC-Yahoo (DSL) list of NGs. Just curious.[/color]

                  The "big 7" newsgroup hierarchies (comp, misc, news, rec, sci, soc, talk)
                  are centrally controlled. New groups can only be created after filing a
                  justification and going through a lengthy voting process. The higher the
                  group is in the hierarchy, the more complicated the voting.

                  The "alt" hierarchy is a free-for-all. Anyone can create any group at any
                  time. So, when someone is interested in a new group in an important
                  hierarchy like comp.lang, they will usually create an alt version of it.
                  Having an established newsgroup with heavy traffic is great evidence during
                  the justification/voting process.

                  "alt.php" was probably a mistake.
                  --
                  - Tim Roberts, timr@probo.com
                  Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.

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