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From: cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis)
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Subject: Re: comp.sys.amiga.games - what do you think?
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Date: 20 Nov 89 19:34:10 GMT
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In article <1982@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu> drues@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu writes:
> ... So, to save me (and I guess several others) some time, would it be 
> possible (feasable) to set up something like comp.sys.amiga.games ?

It would be possible but not feasable. Basically, the psychology of people
posting to the net is that there's is the most important question of all
(and by definition it is in their view of the world) so it needs the widest
possible audience, hence it will get posted to either both c.s.amiga and
c.s.amiga.games, or at worst all three groups. Maybe we should get these
folks listening to rec.games.video or something since that tends to just
get nintendo stuff and the change would be welcome. Personally, I like the
idea myself. I just think you will have a hard time enforcing it. If you
want to start a new group movement, post a message to news.groups suggesting
the group and it's charter, cross post it to c.s.a and start collecting
Yes and No votes. Do that for a month to see what the results are like.
Report on the results, and if they are sufficiently positive you can 
create the group and have a good chance of getting it propogated throughout
the net. Note that it takes about a year for the group to actually exist
on all systems. 


--Chuck McManis
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