From: tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com   
      
   Keith Thompson  writes:   
      
   > Tim Rentsch  writes:   
   >   
   >> Wuns Haerst  writes:   
   >> [...]   
   >>   
   >>> I think Thiago's idea is brilliant.  He should become a   
   >>> member of the  standardization committee.  He's welcome   
   >>> to post suggestions like this here.   
   >>   
   >> If someone wants to propose a revision or addition to the   
   >> ISO C standard, the appropriate newsgroup in which to post   
   >> it is comp.std.c, not comp.lang.c.   
   >   
   > Perhaps, but comp.std.c has no official status with the ISO C   
   > committee.  I don't know if any of its members even read it.   
      
   I expect none do, but that has no bearing on my comment.   
      
   > Personally, I'm no longer picky about the division between   
   > comp.lang.c and comp.std.c.   
      
   Besides being more faithful to the respective charters, it's   
   better to steer discussions of changes or additions to the C   
   standard to comp.std.c for several reasons, the most important   
   of which are one, the quality of the discussion is likely to be   
   higher, and two, the quantity of irrelevant noise is likely to   
   be lower (and that helps comp.lang.c as well as comp.std.c).   
      
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