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From: rja7m@grace.cs.Virginia.EDU (Ran Atkinson)
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Subject: Re: CALL FOR DISCUSSION, Revision 3: comp.sys.amiga reorganization.
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Date: 5 Nov 90 14:50:21 GMT
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In article <1990Nov2.021300.27204@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG>,
	 xanthian@zorch.sf-bay.org (Kent Paul Dolan) writes:

>Rename comp.sys.amiga to be comp.sys.amiga.misc
>Rename comp.sys.amiga.tech to be comp.sys.amiga.programmer

The above are both big wins and a good idea.  Aside from the issues
that Kent Paul Dolan cites, it also makes the Amiga namespace more
consistent with the Mac, MSDOS, UNIX and OS/2 namespaces already existing
and that helps new users find their way to the right newsgroup.

>Create comp.sys.amiga.applications

This should really be named comp.sys.amiga.apps in order to be consistent
with the Mac, MSDOS, UNIX, and OS/2 news heirarchies.  It clearly is
a needed group.

>Create comp.unix.amiga

Not well named or with a good charter.  Comp.os.minix isn't a high volume
group and can handle the Amiga stuff there easily.  If it should be split
we should rename comp.os.minix to be comp.os.minix.misc and create 
comp.os.minix.amiga.   Please note that Minix is not UNIX and vice versa.
They don't share many folks interested in both.

Similarly, comp.unix.amiga should be comp.unix.sysv.amiga in order to be 
consistent with the existing organisation of comp.unix.*  The group
will clearly be needed with the growing use of UNIX System V on the
new Amiga.

Otherwise the proposal sounds good and I wish Kent Paul Dolan well.
As the person who organised and ranthe IBM-PC reorg vote last summer,
I appreciate how difficult it can be to do what he is doing.


Ran
randall@Virginia.EDU