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From: spencer@osc.edu (Stephen N. Spencer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: why comp.sys.mac.misc?
Message-ID: <497@heinlein.osc.edu>
Date: 2 May 90 13:51:54 GMT
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Reply-To: spencer@heinlein.cgrg.ohio-state.edu (Stephen N. Spencer)
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In article <60954@cc.utah.edu> KOFOID@cc.utah.edu writes:
>
>    I don't understand the point behind comp.sys.mac.misc. As far as I'm
>concerned, this is what comp.sys.mac already is. Any topic more precisely
>definable carries a corresponding suffix.All we've done by creating this group
>is add a bunch of keystrokes to our daily news reading, as surely anybody who
>reads the one is going to read the other.

The reason behind the re-organization of comp.sys.mac is that it dealt with
so many different topics.  comp.sys.mac.misc is the REPLACEMENT for 
comp.sys.mac -- comp.sys.mac will eventually go away.  The end result is
a name change (though it's not really that) from "comp.sys.mac" to
"comp.sys.mac.misc" -- it would have looked weird to have several different
"comp.sys.mac.ABCDE" groups, each catering to its own topic, and 
"comp.sys.mac" as the catch-all group for miscellaneous topics.

Was that an adequate description, Chuq?


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