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Subject: Re: New group comp.unix.sco
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Date: 29 Mar 90 04:11:36 GMT
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In article <15292@bfmny0.UU.NET> tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff) writes:
->Dick Dunn is exactly right, regardless of his employer.  We do not need
->a separate SCO products newsgroup.  There are a number of classic
->reasons for collecting articles in a newsgroup, but "because XYZ is the
->vendor" is not a good one.  If SCO wants to start a support mailing list
->they can and should.  In the meantime, topics should be grouped by
->functionality, not nameplate.  Yes, crossposting is sometimes necessary
->and appropriate.  That's what it was invented for!  It happens all the
->time with all kinds of vendors' products.  SCO is nothing special.
->
->Keep in mind that Interactive sells other things too, as do many other
->vendors.  If comp.unix.interactive were proposed, I would vote against
->that too, and I would expect to see Dick Dunn's vote next to my own.
->(Unless the vote counter did an alpha sort :-) )
->
->-- 
->Psychoanalysis is the mental illness   \\\    Tom Neff
->it purports to cure. -- Karl Kraus      \\\   tneff@bfmn0.UU.NET


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