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one way to establish existing practice.</p>
<p><b>Where does the name &quot;Boost&quot; come from?</b> Boost began with
Robert Klarer and me fantasizing about a new library effort over dinner at a C++
committee meeting in Sofia Antipolis, France. Robert mentioned that Herb Sutter
Robert Klarer and I fantasizing about a new library effort over dinner at a C++
committee meeting in Sofia Antipolis, France, in 1998. Robert mentioned that Herb Sutter
was working on a spoof proposal for a new language named Booze, which was
supposed to be better than Java. Somehow that kicked off the idea of
&quot;Boost&quot; as a name. We'd probably had a couple of glasses of good
@ -123,7 +123,8 @@ French wine at that point. It was just a working name, but no one ever came up
with a replacement. (Beman Dawes)</p>
<p><b>Is the web site a commercial business?</b> No. It is just some people getting together
as a kind of cyberspace civic association. If it ever needs to incorporate, it would be as
as a kind of cyberspace civic association. If it ever needs to incorporate, it would be as
a
non-profit organization.</p>
<p><b>Is there any charge for submitting libraries or reviews to Boost.org?</b> No. Unlike
@ -139,17 +140,14 @@ projects and the occasional look into other threads by otherwise uninterested pa
"noise".</p>
<p><b>How can I cope with the large volume of boost mailing list messages?</b>&nbsp;
One approach is to use the YahooGroups digest option; that cuts the email blizzard
down to about three (long) messages per day, so you can glance over the subjects
summary at the top and quickly read what you think is important.&nbsp;The
YahooGroups &quot;no mail/web only&quot; option is best if you just occasionally
want to look at messages.</p>
One approach is to use the &quot;digest&quot; option; that cuts the email blizzard
down to several (long) messages per day, so you can glance over the subjects
summary at the top and quickly read what you think is important.&nbsp;The&nbsp; &quot;no
mail&quot; option turns off list email entirely.</p>
<p>Yet another approach is to use your email program's capabilities to filter messages and automatically
transfer them into several boost folders.&nbsp;Then only read the folders you
care about. Boost list posters are
encouraged to include keywords in the subject like &quot;thread&quot;,
&quot;review&quot;, and &quot;CVS&quot; to aid message filtering.</p>
<p>Another approach is to follow the list traffic via an NTTP newsgroup reader.
See <a href="mailing_lists.htm#newsgroup">Mailing List</a> newsgroup
information.</p>
<p><b>Why do Boost headers have a .hpp suffix rather than .h or none at all?</b>
File extensions communicate the &quot;type&quot; of the file, both to humans and
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<hr>
<p>Revised <!--webbot bot="Timestamp" S-Type="EDITED" S-Format="%d %B, %Y" startspan -->18 April, 2004<!--webbot bot="Timestamp" i-checksum="38549" endspan --></p>
<p>Revised <!--webbot bot="Timestamp" S-Type="EDITED" S-Format="%d %B, %Y" startspan -->23 June, 2005<!--webbot bot="Timestamp" i-checksum="19916" endspan --></p>
<p>© Copyright Beman Dawes 2001</p>
<p> Use, modification, and distribution are subject to the Boost Software
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LICENSE_1_0.txt</a> or copy at <a href="http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt">
www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt</a>) </p>
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