Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!munnari.oz.au!uniwa!DIALix!bernie
From: bernie@DIALix.oz.au (Bernd Felsche)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: CALL FOR LOCAL DISCUSSION Revision 1: Split the c.s.a group more?
Summary: Let's Split!
Message-ID: <591@DIALix.oz.au>
Date: 22 Oct 90 14:05:32 GMT
Expires: 31 Oct 90 00:00:00 GMT
References: <1990Oct19.231315.11667@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG>
Reply-To: bernie@DIALix.oz.au (Bernd Felsche)
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga
Organization: DIALix Services, Perth, Western Australia
Lines: 85

In article <1990Oct19.231315.11667@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) writes:
>There's a lot of this, please read it all before posting responses.
>
I've done this... actually _printed_ it and read it at leisure (is
there such a thing after netnews?)

[ demented rantings deleted :-) ]
>
>PLEASE EMAIL suggestions so I'm sure to keep them; post discussions as

Done..

[ more demented rantings deleted :-) ]

Here are my suggestions and biased opinions:

comp.sys.amiga.misc ........... Very important.
comp.sys.amiga.announce	....... Essential.
comp.sys.amiga.reviews	....... Very good.  Who's going to write them?
comp.sys.amiga.introduction ... Different name might be better (slow cooker)
comp.sys.amiga.applications ... OK
comp.sys.amiga.hardware ....... OK - I can smell the solder already
comp.sys.amiga.programmer ..... Beaut' (oztraylyan for Great)
comp.sys.amiga.games .......... One less I have to read
comp.sys.amiga.market ......... That should cut the traffic to c.s.a.misc
comp.sys.amiga.multimedia ..... You can put your voice in hear (sic) :-)
comp.sys.amiga.emulations ..... Only if you insist
comp.sys.amiga.compare ........ Could contain "futures" discussions as well
comp.sys.amiga.unix ........... Strongly disagree! see below

Further possible at a later stage... Separate later
=================================
comp.sys.amiga.telecom ........ Better call it c.s.a.connect.

	You might have problems with British T., or organizations
	in other countries with the use of "telecom" :-)

OBJECTIONS:
===========
>comp.sys.amiga.unix

The _name_ is wrong, and your description excluded Minix, and other
Unix-like OS's which may be ported (Mach??).

>  There are some problems with the name of this group.  The net has a
                  ======================
>  lot of comp.unix.* groups, which puts a lot of pressure on moving this
>  out of c.s.a.  However, I've read that the Amiga SYSV4 OS will be very
>  enhanced with Amiga specific goodies that wouldn't make sense to other
>  Unix systems, and I'd like to keep the Amiga specific Unix discussion

That's why you have a c.u.amiga area.  It advertises the differences
to the unix population.

>  in the c.s.a heirarchy; the generic SYSV4 questions can go to a
>  comp.unix.sysv4 group, or whatever it's called.  I have pretty strong
>  feelings on this one, but not strong enough to send me into little tin
>  dictator mode; let me/the group know your feelings on this one; I'm
>  willing to be out-shouted. 

OK you little semi-dictator :-).  I have a _very_ good reason to make
the group comp.unix.amiga!  Most Important.

All those UNIX readers, who wouldn't give Amiga (that toy? ;-) a
second look, will be confronted with a query as to whether they want
to subscribe to comp.UNIX.amiga.  They never looked inside c.s.a, or
gave up because of the volume.

Given the alternative comp.sys.AMIGA.unix, which do you they're more
likely to subscribe to? (Ignore any penchant for Amigas, it's
difficult, I know.)

Is one of the aims of newsgroups to create a greater understanding?
How can we support that aim, if unix readers are discouraged from 
subscribing in the first place?

This aspect is quite obvious to me.  You must have overlooked it.
Right?

[ Hang on. I think this road is getting very bumpy ]

-- 
 ________Bernd_Felsche__________bernie@DIALix.oz.au_____________
[ Phone: +61 9 419 2297		19 Coleman Road			]
[ TZ:	 UTC-8			Calista, Western Australia 6167	]