NCEG stuff on "numeric-interest"

[Alan M. McKenney]

    A while back, David Hough gatewayed the NCEG mailings into
the Numeric-Interest mailing list.  From that point on, most
of the stuff that I got from the NI list was NCEG stuff, to the
point that I unsubscribed.  I was recently told that there was more
NI stuff and less NCEG stuff, so I resubscribed.  I now find
that I get lots of NCEG stuff.

    The thing is, I, at least, have *no* interest in NCEG.  I don't
use C and don't ever want to, so I am a poor audience for the NCEG
stuff.  As a numerical analyst (and someone who is forever fighting
with the compilers and the arithmetic behavior of whatever machine I am
on), I am interested in issues of rounding and truncation, exception
handling, effects of optimization, floating-point representations,
etc., but not in issues such as (to name the latest Hot Topic that is
filling my E-mailbox) the Politically Correct way to handle the syntax
of array subscript expressions in function prototypes.

    Thus, my question for the readers of the Numeric-Interest list:
am I the only one who would rather not receive NCEG mailings?  If
so, then I will just quietly unsubscribe.  If, however, quite a
few people would like to get this list without NCEG, then perhaps
we could ask David Hough to ungateway NCEG.


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