Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!menudo.uh.edu!sugar!peter From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: CALL FOR LOCAL DISCUSSION: Split the c.s.a group more? Message-ID: <6716@sugar.hackercorp.com> Date: 7 Oct 90 01:08:35 GMT References: <1990Oct6.051722.7143@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> Reply-To: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston Lines: 93 Jesus Harold Christ, Kent... now I have to read comp.sys.amiga just to keep up on this? I haven't even dared look in there for MONTHS. Ah well, we each have our cross to bear. I hope my wife understands... In article <1990Oct6.051722.7143@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) writes: > moderated groups posits the existance of volunteers to moderate them. da > Silva? This is your big chance to shine. Ech. Moderating is too much like hard work... but if nobody else volunteers I'll do it. Get the groups lined up though. > announce -- moderated... Sounds good. Followups directed by the moderator to somewhere else, or just bounced? > reviews -- moderated, archived... Are there any review groups that actually work? This one sounds likely to be a nine-day-wonder. > software -- [except games] Check. > hardware -- [status quo] Check. > tech -- [status quo] Rename to .programmer? (Hey, can you believe I said that?) > games -- ... Check! > education -- ... If the volume gets up there in .misc. Is it really ready for this? > graphics -- ... Check. > video -- ... Seems would be largely overlapping with .multimedia, or .graphics. > music -- ... > multimedia -- ... Check, check. > verbal -- ... > handicapped -- ... Like education, leave 'em in .misc for now? > productivity -- ... Now this should be the biggest group. :-> The name is a bit condescending: this should be the core of .misc. > help -- ... Better name than .newusers, but why buck the trend? > futures -- ... I like the name. > misc -- ... Check! > unix -- sure to be needed very soon. And we can create it then. I'm not convinced about UNIX on the Amiga. > services -- things done for and by Amiga owners. > vendors -- praise and horror stories. Stick 'em in .misc for now. > My own plan, if I can restrain myself, is to advocate nothing, but to try > to keep a current summary of the proposed breakdown available unexpired > by weekly(?) postings as consensus occurs/fails. Mail me a copy? Naw, I'll be good and read .amiga. Ech. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' .