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From: cleland@sdbio2.ucsd.edu (Thomas Cleland)
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Subject: Re: CALL FOR LOCAL DISCUSSION: Split the c.s.a group more?
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Date: 12 Oct 90 04:55:01 GMT
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I love the idea of expanding c.s.a. into several groups, but
NOT TOO MANY at first!  That's a great recipe for making the
whole Amiga network bog down in bureaucracy.

c.s.multimedia can include graphics/animation/sound/video for
now.  It can be broken up later if traffic becomes too thick,
but aren't most of these media enhanced by the others anyway?
Even a Mac can do still pictures  ;-)

c.s.reviews would be good.  Product reviews strike me as
something one is either in the mood for or not, at a particular
time.  

I think, for the record, that cries for help and questions for
the CBM CATS god(esse)s should stay in c.s.a itself.  Reasons:
they aren't numerous enough to justify their own group, and
also people are less likely to prowl the .help group looking for
people to assist than they are to answer a question that they 
just happen to come across in the general reading.  A newsgroup
dedicated to .help may well become a ghetto for frustrated
users.

I would like people to post information on the location of good
software they come across that isn't marketed very well.
Academic software, often freely redistributable, in particular;
and programs like Maple that are commercial but not advertised
in the Amiga market though there is an Amiga version  (and
people fret that the Amiga lacks professional math software
while Maple languishes unpurchased).  If you hear of it, please
post it!  User groups... grab it and circulate it!

Hurrah.

Thom Cleland
cleland@sdbio2.ucsd.edu