Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!att!bu.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!ucsd!ucbvax!ucdavis!iris!zerkle From: zerkle@iris.ucdavis.edu (Dan Zerkle) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: CALL FOR LOCAL DISCUSSION Revision 2: Split the c.s.a group more? Summary: A few last-minute good ideas Keywords: reply time limited Message-ID: <7890@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> Date: 30 Oct 90 00:52:03 GMT References: <1990Oct28.001448.25414@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> Sender: usenet@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu Reply-To: zerkle@iris.ucdavis.edu (Dan Zerkle) Organization: U.C. Davis - Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Lines: 69 In article limonce@pilot.njin.net (Tom Limoncelli) writes: > > >> comp.sys.amiga.influence > >I hate to say it, but the name.space.control.freaks of news.groups >are going to say, "this should be called comp.sys.amiga.flame". Nobody likes any of these names, (.compare, etc.), but everybody agrees that it is needed, if only so we don't have to read it. How about: comp.sys.amiga.ideas I think it's a very positive name, and it pretty much covers what people are trying to accomplish in many of the posts. It would also neatly encompass those annoying "Commodore should make a standard for a 29-bit whizbanger, just like everyone else has!!" >> comp.unix.amiga >I like it, but I think news.groups will complain that it's a >newsgroup for a product that's not out yet. Out in Australia. Out at Virginia Tech. Good enough for me. >People didn't seem to understand that I was joking about electing a >c.s.a net.police person to enforce certain rules. IT'S A JOKE. Why? You can't get someone to ENFORCE RULES, but there's nothing to keep you from REMINDING someone about ETIQUITTE. This is done elsewhere on the net. If you don't believe me, try crossposting something to misc.forsale.computers and comp.anything. You will get read the rules so fast it makes your head spin (yes, I found out the way you think I found out). Yes, I know a lot of you reading this just got annoyed. Followup for good reasons, e-mail for flames. >I won't argue too much about these names, life if too short to take >Usenet seriously. I think the people of news.groups will (they >must plan on living a long time). I'm merely trying to bring up >points that IMHO they will bring up. You're probably right. How about this: For those groups which have some question about what the name should be, we vote on the charters, and we also vote on what the name should be. For example: (vote yes or no) Group to discuss the way fleas always grow on your keyboard and jump into your shorts, biting you horribly. (vote for one name for the above group) comp.sys.amiga.fleas comp.sys.amiga.fleabite comp.sys.amiga.keyboard comp.sys.amiga.bugs comp.bugs.fleas I don't know if this is a "legal" way to do this, but it should be. Anyway, we've got four more days to work this out before the official call for discussion. -Dan Zerkle vapor-moderator Dan Zerkle zerkle@iris.ucdavis.edu (916) 754-0240 Amiga... Because life is too short for boring computers.