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From: nazgul@alphalpha.com (Kee Hinckley)
Newsgroups: news.groups,comp.windows.misc,comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Call for discussion: comp.windows.openlook
Message-ID: <1990Apr4.224904.25589@alphalpha.com>
Date: 4 Apr 90 22:49:04 GMT
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In article <1990Apr4.015351.25597@dasys1.uucp> mls@dasys1.uucp (Michael Siemon) writes:
>
>I'd like to request discussion towards creating a new group to be called
>comp.windows.openlook, intended for programming and product discussions
>of stuff built on the Open Look(*) X11 toolkit.  The idea is to keep such
*Which* Open Look X11 toolkit?  XView or Xt+?
The current move seems to be towards:
	comp.windows.x.motif
	comp.windows.x.xview
presumably if there is demand you could do
	comp.windows.x.xt+

>My understanding is that comp.windows.x (a.k.a. xpert) is not easily
>splittable, being in its primary incarnation not a USENET group at all,
It is splitable in that a second mailing list can be created people
can be redirected to use that for appropriate discussions.  If comp.windows.x.motif
is created I'll redirect it to/from the motif@alphalpha.com mailing list.
Presumbably someone can do the same for xview/xt+

>but a mailing list maintained by the X Consortium people at MIT.  It
>seems to me to make sense to keep discussions of the specific toolkits
>(as opposed to more generic software like the intrinsics, or XView)
>out of xpert.  Hence, if discussion seems favorable, I will run a vote
Yes, but.  XView isn't "more generic software".  Did you mean to imply
that it belonged in or out of the xpert mailing list?




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