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From: rcd@ico.isc.com (Dick Dunn)
Newsgroups: news.groups,comp.unix.xenix,comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: New group comp.unix.sco
Summary: unnecessary fragmentation
Message-ID: <1990Mar26.213809.26999@ico.isc.com>
Date: 26 Mar 90 21:38:09 GMT
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dma@pcssc.UUCP (Dave Armbrust) suggests a new group comp.unix.sco.
> This group would be intended for postings regarding all products
> from Santa Cruz Operations;  Including but not limited to SCO
> Xenix, SCO Unix, Xsight, (ODT) Open Desk Top, Lyrix, VP/ix, SCO
> Professional, etc.

There are already newsgroups suitable for the intended purposes.  Xenix-
specific discussions can go in comp.unix.xenix.  UNIX-specific discussions
(referring to the AT&T-based V.3 product) can go in comp.unix.i386.  Dis-
cussions which overlap the two (such as the common questions about "should
I buy Xenix or UNIX?") are most logically cross-posted to the two.

The SCO UNIX discussion has so far been carried out in comp.unix.i386, and
I think we've all benefitted from the interchange there.

The major difficulty I see with adding an SCO-specific group is that there
are many discussions which really apply to various vendors of 386 systems.
To the extent that the discussions bear on SCO UNIX, I expect we'd see a
lot of cross-posting, since their base code and VP/ix is based on the same
code used by the other vendors in that arena.

To the extent that SCO discussions apply to a variety of unrelated
products, I feel it's a bad precedent to set up new manufacturer-oriented
groups instead of discussing by topic...I'd really not want to see
comp.unix.isc, comp.unix.esix, comp.unix.intel, comp.unix.att, come out
of this.

> ...there is confusion to where posting regarding
> SCO products should be posted.

I haven't seen any confusion in comp.unix.i386.  Perhaps it exists in
comp.unix.xenix for historical reasons, but that confusion will resolve
itself as SCO's UNIX product becomes better known.  Moreover, that same
temporary confusion would exist with any new group.
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Dick Dunn     rcd@ico.isc.com    uucp: {ncar,nbires}!ico!rcd     (303)449-2870
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