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From: dwj@acd4.UUCP ( Dan Johnson         )
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: CALL FOR DISCUSSION: Renaming comp.sys.apple comp.sys.apple2
Summary: nitpicking
Message-ID: <1990Jan16.011341.2752@acd4.UUCP>
Date: 16 Jan 90 01:13:41 GMT
References: <1990Jan6.194945.12170@world.std.com>
Reply-To: dwj@acd4.UUCP ( Dan Johnson         )
Organization: Applied Computing Devices, Inc., Terre Haute, IN
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In article <1990Jan6.194945.12170@world.std.com> spike@world.std.com
(Joe Ilacqua) writes:
>	This is a formal call for discussion of the renaming
>comp.sys.apple to comp.sys.apple2.  The comp.sys.apple group is for
>discussion of Apple // (][,2) computers, *not* all Apple computers.
>Newcomers to news often post Macintosh questions to comp.sys.apple.

Shouldn't that be phrased to indicate *unambiguously* that the entire
//-series is intended, rather than just the Apple ][?  (You know, the
predecessor to the Apple ][+.)  :-) After all, if an occasional
Macintosh user passes up comp.sys.mac and posts to comp.sys.apple, we
should allow for users who might think they should look for
comp.sys.apple2gs.  ;-) Hmmm....  This occured to me because I do have
an Apple //GS on my desk at home, and a vintage 1979, serial #017354
Apple ][ in a closet (the 16k language card is flaky and one of the
keys is mostly dead).

Also (more seriously), if someone wants to post about the Apple I or
the Apple ///, would that posting be welcome in the renamed group?  I
don't remember ever seeing a posting about the Apple I, and it's been
a while since the last Apple /// posting, but we should prepare for
this contingency now.

Other issues (like the logistics of shifting INFO-APPLE and the timing
of the rmgroup for comp.sys.apple) can wait until this actually passes
(which is probably why no one else has mentioned them yet).
-- 
Daniel W. Johnson              Applied Computing Devices, Inc.
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