Whats the difference between the yahoo group and this google groups?

[smileplzz]

r there any files which we can download from this group.
can we only ask questions in this group?
no files stored like it is there in yahoo groups.

i think it should be there in group services.

ur new group member
Ram
20/m/India
e-mail id:
pl**********@ya hoo.co.in
no*******@hotma il.com

waiting for ur reply.

[Keith Thompson]

"sm*******@gmai l.com" <sm*******@gmai l.com> writes:

r there any files which we can download from this group.
can we only ask questions in this group?
no files stored like it is there in yahoo groups.

i think it should be there in group services.

Please spell out words: "are", not "r"; "your", not "ur".

This is neither a Yahoo group nor a Google group. It's a Usenet
newsgroup, which predates both Yahoo and Google by decades. (Google
happens to provide an interface to Usenet, which is pretty good for
searching retrieving old articles but lousy for posting.)

No, there are no files you can download. This is a discussion group.
There's no such thing as "group services", and there's nobody in
charge.

There's a periodically posted article with the subject "Welcome to
comp.lang.c!" which you may find useful. I advise lurking for a while
(reading the newsgroup without posting) to get the feel of it.

--
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keit h) ks***@mib.org <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst>
San Diego Supercomputer Center <*> <http://users.sdsc.edu/~kst>
We must do something. This is something. Therefore, we must do this.

[Amarendra Godbole]

Keith Thompson said:

newsgroup, which predates both Yahoo and Google by decades. (Google
happens to provide an interface to Usenet, which is pretty good for
searching retrieving old articles but lousy for posting.)

The new groups-beta from google is pretty good for posting too.
Messages appear instantaneously , unlike the previous delay. Added to it
is a facility to subscribe and add watches to posts. It is
http://groups-beta.google.com/

Cheers,
Amar

[Michael Mair]

Amarendra Godbole wrote:

Keith Thompson said:

newsgroup, which predates both Yahoo and Google by decades. (Google
happens to provide an interface to Usenet, which is pretty good for
searching retrieving old articles but lousy for posting.)

The new groups-beta from google is pretty good for posting too.
Messages appear instantaneously , unlike the previous delay. Added to it
is a facility to subscribe and add watches to posts. It is
http://groups-beta.google.com/

The "improvemen ts" include gobbling of tabs and spaces in preformatted
code, so it is about useless for many technical groups.
The "instantaneousl y" is to be taken cum grano salis if we consider
the number of double posts from people using the new google interface.

The latter may be one of these unsurmountable "it should be no problem"
problems, but the former is plain nasty. It takes away from you the
means to post what you write. This even may lead to different semantics
for languages for which the form (i.e. indentation etc.) defines logical
blocks etc.
Cheers
Michael
--
E-Mail: Mine is a gmx dot de address.

[smileplzz]

did u(sorry you) answer me out of frustration or just the normal thing?
when i read it i thought u(sorry you) were irritated by this question
hence answered me like this.
By the way who created this usenet news group?
its good but needs development.

[Keith Thompson]

sm*******@gmail .com writes:

did u(sorry you) answer me out of frustration or just the normal thing?
Probably a little of both, frankly, but my advice was sincere.

Incidentally, I wasn't sure who you were responding to in your latest
message (I had to check the parent article); it's helpful to include
attributions.
when i read it i thought u(sorry you) were irritated by this question
hence answered me like this.
By the way who created this usenet news group?
its good but needs development.

I don't know who created it, but I think it's been around for over 20
years.

Did you have a question about C?

--
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keit h) ks***@mib.org <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst>
San Diego Supercomputer Center <*> <http://users.sdsc.edu/~kst>
We must do something. This is something. Therefore, we must do this.

[Nick Austin]

On 30 Dec 2004 22:12:22 -0800, sm*******@gmail .com wrote:

By the way who created this usenet news group?

Google has archives going back to November 1986. For example:

http://www.google.co.uk/groups?hl=en...f588df9880dafc

As you can see this joins mid-thread and Google does not
appear to have any archives from before this date.

Nick.

[john_bode]

sm*******@gmail .com wrote:

r there any files which we can download from this group.
can we only ask questions in this group?
no files stored like it is there in yahoo groups.

This is a discussion forum only, centered on the C programming language
(meaning discussion of the language itself, not any specific
implementation of the language); no downloads here.
i think it should be there in group services.

There are no "group services". Usenet newsgroups don't really work
that way.

[Mark McIntyre]

On 30 Dec 2004 22:12:22 -0800, in comp.lang.c , sm*******@gmail .com wrote:

By the way who created this usenet news group?
This usenet group was created around the same time as the internet, back in
the early 80s. It was renamed from net.lang.c in the Great Renaming.
its good but needs development.

Actually I suspect that comp.lang.c is pretty mature by its 20th
birthday... :-)
--
Mark McIntyre
CLC FAQ <http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/C-faq/top.html>
CLC readme: <http://www.ungerhu.com/jxh/clc.welcome.txt >

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[Mark McIntyre]

On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 12:51:32 +0000, in comp.lang.c , Nick Austin
<se************ *********@nospa m.com> wrote:

On 30 Dec 2004 22:12:22 -0800, sm*******@gmail .com wrote:

By the way who created this usenet news group?

Google has archives going back to November 1986.

net.lang.c, comp.lang.c's original name, dates from 21st November 1982 I
believe. At least, a google search turns up a couple of documents showing
net.lang.c as being added to the groups list on that date.

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