Re: comp.lang.php has been created

<p>comp.lang.php was created yesterday, after a two and a half month long process started in April by Ian Fette resulted in a <a href="http://groups.google.com/groups?q=comp.lang.php&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&sel m=1025483879.39561%40isc.org&rnum=3">177-11 vote</a> in favor of the group. The new group is already carried on most news servers, and should be carried on almost all news servers in the world within the next few days.</p> <p>The new group is important for a few reasons: Firstly, the old alt.* php groups suffered from poor propagation - i.e. not all servers carried them, and the community was split between multiple groups. This new group offers a chance to unite the PHP-Usenet community. Secondly, most servers have longer post-retention times for comp.* than alt.*. Finally, the creation of comp.lang.php represents PHP's coming to acceptance and maturity. Virtually all languages (except ASP) have a spot under the comp.lang.* heirarchy. Stop on by and become a part of the community - comp.lang.php is a great place to get help and to help others.</p> There, should be simple enough to cut and paste ^-^ I hope it's not still too long... I tried to make it as short and to the point as possible... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gabor Hojtsy" <gabor@hojtsy.hu> To: "Ian Fette" <ifette@umich.edu>; <webmaster@php.net> Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2002 3:53 AM Subject: Re: comp.lang.php has been created > Great! Can you please summarize all this in a short news message and > post it here, so we can copy-paste it onto the php.net homepage. It > would greatly help us putting up this news item. > > Thanks for your help, > Goba [one webmaster@php.net] > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Ian Fette" <ifette@umich.edu> > To: <webmaster@php.net> > Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2002 5:02 AM > Subject: comp.lang.php has been created > > > > I just wanted to let you know that comp.lang.php has been created... > > finally, a single group for PHP under the proper hierarchy... no more > > splitting up between alt.php and alt.comp.lang.php. PHP has joined the > rest > > of the major programming languages under the comp.lang.* hierarchy. > Anyhow, > > a group under comp.lang.* has many advantages over alt.* groups, including > > propagation and retention... I would appreciate it greatly if you would > make > > a post on php.net about the creation of the new group, as I certainly > think > > it is a very big event for the PHP community (and also a great place to > turn > > to for help and support). > > > > The newgroup control message was sent out today, most servers already > carry > > comp.lang.php, but some admins are a bit slow to respond to newgroup > control > > messages. Either way, if a user's server does not already carry it, > > comp.lang.php should appear very shortly on the server's list of carried > > groups. comp.lang.php is here! > > > > -Ian Fette, proponent comp.lang.php > > > > > > > > >