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From: mlm@nl.cs.cmu.edu (Michael L. Mauldin)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Put the system name in subject line
Keywords: Proposal ibm msdos unix iris sgi gobbledegook
Message-ID: <6581@pt.cs.cmu.edu>
Date: 19 Oct 89 14:27:54 GMT
Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, CS/RI
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I would like to propose that notices and requests on comp.graphics that
are specific to one type of hardware or OS be labelled as such in the
subject line.

It seems that as much as 1/3 of the traffic on comp.graphics is IBM-PC
specific, and I (at least) would rather ignore it.  I'm sure that other
people would benefit from similar labelling of other types of requests.

This kind of labelling is being done with virus-l Digest to good effect.
I propose the following as a starting point for a reasonable list of
labels:

	  (ibm)	Request related to IBM PC and compatibles, VGA screens,
		screen saving programs, graphics cards, etc.
	(amiga)	Same for Amiga requests, HAM mode, etc.
	  (mac)	Sam for Mac specific requests, HQX, PICT, and Macpaint
		related questions.
      no label	Posts of interest to the entire community, regardless
		of hardware.

I'm sure the community can propose other labels.  I am not suggesting
that machine specific queries be moved to their respective comp.sys.XXX
newsgroups, because they are all overloaded.  And some machine specific
questions are solved by answering "I have C code that does that; do you
wish to port it to your machine?"

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