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From: frisk@rhi.hi.is (Fridrik Skulason)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Creating a newsgroup for the 6000-series ?
Message-ID: <2085@krafla.rhi.hi.is>
Date: 22 Aug 90 12:15:08 GMT
Reply-To: frisk@rhi.hi.is (Fridrik Skulason)
Organization: University of Iceland (RHI)
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Our first RS/6000 machine has just arrived here, and I was wondering...

What do you folks think of creating a newsgroup dedicated to those
machines ?  There is considerable RS/6000 discussion here in this group,
but it seems to me that the machines deserve a group of their own, just like
most other popular machines.  However ....


    .... the machines have just barely started shipping. Should the
         creation of the newsgroup wait until the machines have become
         more common ?

    .... what should the group be called ?  Some possibilities are :

              comp.sys.ibm.6000
              comp.sys.ibm.r6000
              comp.sys.ibm.s6000
              comp.sys.ibm.rs6000      
              comp.sys.ibm.risc6000
              comp.sys.ibm.rios

         as some people are VERY unhappy about .r6000 or .rs6000, naming
         the group .risc6000 is in my opinion the "safest" choice.

    .... should the group be moderated or not ?

This is just an informal survey - let me know what you think, and if the
response is generally positive and strong enough, I will post a formal
"CALL FOR DISCUSSION", to be followed by a "CALL FOR VOTES" later, according
to the guidelines.

-frisk
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