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Arne Vajhøj
Roedy said:I defend my post on the following grounds.
1. it is news relevant to all Java programmers.
That does not make it on topic.
2. there is very little traffic in comp.lang.java.*. It will die
completely if there is not a steady trickle of interesting bits to
discuss.
There is a lot of traffic in the Java groups. cljp seems rather
constant on 3000-5000 posts per months.
3.. The Java-specific question is, what does this mean for Java coding
and existing coding?
Support was added in Java 1.6 via the IDN class - discussion about
that is going to be very brief - there are not much beef.
4. The key feature of Java is multi-platform, multi-national,
multi-lingual. . That is Java's niche. The new domain encoding is a
piece of information crucial to that core functionality.
5. If I didn't mention it here, it is highly unlikely the majority of
Java coders would stumble on it elsewhere within the next month or so.
I am speaking to a community. Spamming is telling them things of no
relevance. That is not what I did.
If they need to know then they would have found out otherwise.
6. There is so much true spam on the newsgroups, it seems funny to
make MORE fuss about something in the grey area.
That I agree with !!!!
Arne