Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!romp!auschs!d75!dundee.austin.ibm.com!au0005 From: au0005@dundee.austin.ibm.com Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix Subject: Re: Creating a newsgroup for the 6000-series ? Message-ID: <3302@d75.UUCP> Date: 28 Aug 90 14:27:45 GMT References: <13072@hydra.gatech.EDU> <2085@krafla.rhi.hi.is> Sender: news@d75.UUCP Reply-To: au0005@dundee.austin.ibm.com () Organization: IBM Austin, TX Lines: 53 In article <13072@hydra.gatech.EDU>, gs26@prism.gatech.EDU (Glenn R. Stone) writes: > In <2085@krafla.rhi.hi.is> frisk@rhi.hi.is (Fridrik Skulason) writes: > >What do you folks think of creating a newsgroup dedicated to those > >machines ? I think it's a great idea! > They've certainly generated enough (very useful) volume here to fill a > group.... but there really hasn't been that much ps/2 and rt stuff to > wade thru. As I see it, we could either split, or just put appropriate > stuff in our Subject lines.... If we do split, I think "risc6000" would > be the more appropriate name, as some Aussies have pointed out.... What about "risc6k" ? I am unsure of the official IBM opinion on this name, but it would seem to be short enough. I don't really see the relevance of the length problem with risc6000 either, unless you type at one word per minute. > I'll be happy split or no, as long as Austin stays on the net with all > that good advice... Austin will hang around. The access has even been opened up a little bit for the network. We get a lot out of it also! Now, if only there was a nice, easy way for us to get it in Australia. (sob, I go back in two weeks!) > Glenn R. Stone (gs26@prism.gatech.edu) Peter May, Advisory Program Services Representative. IBM Australia. Sydney Support Center, 1-55 Rothschild Avenue, Rosebery. NSW. 2018. Australia. ***************************************************************************** AWDNet: au0005@dundee.austin.ibm.com, peter@price.austin.ibm.com Vnet : AU0005 at AUSVMQ, PETERMAY at SYDVM1. Phone : Austin 1-512-823-4821, 4869. ( Tie Line 793 ), Australia 61-2-662-9560. uucp : ...!cs.utexas.edu!ibmaus!auschs!price.austin.ibm.com!peter ...!cs.utexas.edu!ibmaus!auschs!dundee.austin.ibm.com!croc ... An Aussie lost in Austin ... #include /* All of this rubbish belongs to me: Associate IBM with it in no way whatsoever. */