[sitkack]

This is hilarious because Google is probably the largest user of C++ and has the most people on the C++ standards committees .

[dialamac]

This is about C, not C++. Though I haven’t been there in years, I chuckle to think what would have happened if you made this mistake on that news group.

[storedbox]

Pretty sure OP is referring to this part of the comment they were replying to:

> Users posting to comp.lang.c through Google Groups were a problem -- especially with the recent bug that caused GG posts to comp.lang.c++ to have the "++" quietly dropped.