Hello,
Please read the second part of the message being forwarded and
contribute to make PHP have better recognition by voting for the
creation of the comp.lang.php newsgroup. The explantion about the
importance of this is in the message.
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Regards,
Manuel Lemos
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Hello,
Finally I implemented something that I have been willing to have for a
long time. I have just include in the PHP Classes site newsletter the head
lines of the latest PHP news that were released in several other sites.
So, now everybody subscribed to the site newsletter can be kept up to date
with the latest news in the PHP world without having to keep polling many
sites to know if any interesting news were released.
This addition to the site newsletter was made possible thanks to the
cooperation of the CodingTheWeb.com site that provided the news feed
aggregating news articles from several sources that are popular sites in
the PHP community.
As usual, you may see a preview of the site newsletter already with this
new news feed here:
http://www.phpclasses.org/newsletter.html
Another issue that is not really related with the PHP Classes site but is
very important for the recognition of PHP as a language well supported
within the programming community, is the fact that finally a newsgroup
named comp.lang.php is about to be voted for approval in the Usenet.
For those that do not know what this means, Usenet is probably the oldest
network of discussion groups distributed over the Internet. It has several
hierarchies of groups but only the Big 8 are well distributed among ISPs.
The comp hierarchy is one of the Big 8 hierarchies.
There are already the alt.php, alt.php.sql and the alt.comp.lang.php news
groups but the alt hierarchy is not one of the Big 8 hierarchies and so it
is not so widely available as the comp hierarchy. There are also several
regional PHP newsgroups that are even less well distributed.
The official mailing lists maintained by the PHP Group are also available
via NNTP but AFAIK no ISP redistributes those news groups.
Having a PHP newsgroup sub-hierarchy under comp.lang.php is not just a
matter of having a better distributed hierarchy of PHP news groups. It is
also a matter of status for PHP as well recognized language.
If you go to Google and see the list of languages under the comp.lang
hierarchy, you see there 55 languages and none of them is PHP, as if PHP
would be such a minor language that would not justify a hierarchy for
itself.
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&group=comp.lang
So, it is very important for PHP and all of those that work with it, that
the comp.lang.php group just submitted for voting becomes approved.
The Call For votes message was posted here:
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=1023125386.82479%40isc.org
So, all you need to do to contribute to the process of approval is to send
a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text "I vote YES on
comp.lang.php" in the body of the message.
Eventually this link will help you do it without much effort:
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=I%20vote%20YES%20on%20comp.lang.php
Of course, you should only vote YES if you agree with the creation of the
news group, but as subscriber of the PHP Classes site I assume that you
most likely agree that it is a good idea.
In the name of the PHP community, thank you for your cooperation.
Regards,
Manuel Lemos
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