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From: martin@mwtech.UUCP (Martin Weitzel)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: Questions and Answers comp.unix.sco
Keywords: new group comp.unix.sco sco call vote
Message-ID: <746@mwtech.UUCP>
Date: 3 May 90 18:50:10 GMT
References: <217@pcssc.UUCP> <719@bilver.UUCP>
Reply-To: martin@mwtech.UUCP (Martin Weitzel)
Organization: MIKROS Systemware, Darmstadt/W-Germany
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In article <719@bilver.UUCP> bill@bilver.UUCP (Bill Vermillion) writes:
[dd....]
:The heart of the problem seems to be you want comp.unix.sco - so that you can
:go there for all SCO products.  THis is NOT the way the net is set up.
:
:comp.unix.????? is for OS discussion.  The ONLY reason the comp.unix.microport
:is there and not comp.unix.i286, is that is was/is the only Unix for '286
:machines.  In hindsight it probably would have been better for it to be
:comp.unix.i286.
:
:If you want to discuss SCO's Integra it should be in comp.dcom.databses.
:
:If you want to discuss SCO's Lyrix, or their Word port, the would belong more
:appropriately in comp.text.
[dd.....]

How about a server to which I can present the name of a software product
or program I have a question about and get the appropriate newsgroup as
output?

It could help many newcomers who don't know to which group to post. Such
a program should best be supplied with the news software and its database
should be updated with some control messages (just the way new groups are
created). Insertion of new products into groups could be handled similar
to the creation of new groups. Finally, if the net doesn't come to a
decission, there might be the need for a new group.

Just an idea.
-- 
Martin Weitzel, email: martin@mwtech.UUCP, voice: 49-(0)6151-6 56 83