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From: chymes@fribourg.csmil.umich.edu (Charles Hymes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech,comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: New newsgroups
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Date: 14 Jun 90 16:30:09 GMT
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In article <2633@zipeecs.umich.edu> gilgalad@dip.eecs.umich.edu (Ralph Seguin) writes:
>I think that it would be a good idea to start a few new Amiga newsgroups.
>How about
>
>comp.sys.amiga.comm    (communications things: Ethernet, TCP, DNET, NFS, etc)
>comp.sys.amiga.os      ( OS topics, Multitasking, scheduling algorithms, etc)
>comp.sys.amiga.graphics  (you get the idea)
>
>This would help ease the load of reading since comp.sys.amiga seems to
>be a catch all right now.
>
>			Thanks, Ralph
> 
>gilgalad@dip.eecs.umich.edu       gilgalad@zip.eecs.umich.edu
>gilgalad@caen.engin.umich.edu     Ralph_Seguin@ub.cc.umich.edu
>gilgalad@sparky.eecs.umich.edu    USER6TUN@UMICHUB.BITNET
>
>Ralph Seguin               |  In order to get infinitely many monkeys to type

I think it would be a very bad idea to start more amiga newsgroups.
The porblem Ralph, is that many of us would have to convice reluctant sysops to 
accept these new amiga newsgroups. It took me months of haggling just to get 
comp.sys.amiga. Every new newsgroup would just be that much Amiga info that alot
of people would miss out on. In your instance, alot of people would never be able 
to post or read stuff on communcations things, OS topics and or Amiga graphics.
I also thing that these technical/SIG news groups would waste alot of bandwidth,
because whenever there was an interaction between groups, say .comm and .graphics
for X11 or .graphics and .os for screen interupts, there would be a lot of logical
cross posting.

Yes, comp.sys.amiga gets alot of different articles. But we can just list the 
headers and skip the ones we don't want to read. This is a small inconvienience 
compared to greatly reduceing the distribution of Amiga Info and wasting 
bandwidth. Three for one little computer is enough.

Charlweed Hymerfan (A Major Dude)