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From: kjones@talos.uucp (Kyle Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Gnu + other emacs
Message-ID: <1989Oct30.151205.3470@talos.uucp>
Date: 30 Oct 89 15:12:05 GMT
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Wayne Mesard writes:
 > I would support an effort to keep all the GNU discussion in gnu.emacs.*
 > since reading both groups is sort of a drag.  What's gnu.all's
 > distribution like these days?  And more importantly, will The Man mind
 > non-devotees using GNU's newsgroups?

That last sentence is the rub.  The kind of discussion and questions we see
in comp.emacs wouldn't be appropriate to gnu.emacs or gnu.emacs.bug.  Also
the GNU lists are proprietary, which means they are subject to FSF
administrative fiats and political advocacy.  Not that these things have
been bad so far, but it's nice to have an apolitical forum.

 > Alternatively, we could try to create comp.emacs.gnu.  In a way this
 > seems more fair, since the GNU content of the current comp.emacs and
 > gnu.emacs are somewhat different.

Actually, comp.emacs should be under the comp.editors tree, say,
comp.editors.emacs.

In any event, there isn't enough traffic in this group to justify splitting
it, at least not to the denizens of news.group.