by "llothar" <llothar@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
Dec 8, 2006 at 04:00 PM
> Now according to this callers, we now should see a lot of newcomers. I
> can hardly see anyone.
Did you really expect something else?
> Ah yes some may say, those are in the mailing lists,
At least not on the Smarteiffel list. Still the old well known guys on
the list and for years almost exactly the same number on the mailing
list (~350).
Don't know anything about the GPL virus infected Eiffel-Software
version and don't care.
> but for what do
> we have this newsgroups then?
For spam and historical reasons. Maybe others learn from the mistakes
of
the eiffel community. But hey there is also a Modula-3 newsgroup, so it
seems
nobody is learning ....