Xref: utzoo unix-pc.general:6714 comp.sys.att:11057 news.groups:26143 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!umich!sharkey!news.iastate.edu!mehl From: mehl@cs.iastate.edu (Mark M Mehl) Newsgroups: unix-pc.general,comp.sys.att,news.groups Subject: Re: comp.sys.3b1.*? Message-ID: Date: 4 Dec 90 05:24:50 GMT References: <11686@alice.att.com> <36388@cup.portal.com> <638@quad.sialis.com> Sender: news@news.iastate.edu (USENET News System) Reply-To: mehl@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu Followup-To: news.groups Organization: Dept of EE/CprE -- IOWA STATE UNIV Lines: 41 dts@quad.sialis.com (David Sandberg) writes: >In article mehl@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu writes: >> comp.sys.att.3b1 (since we already have comp.sys.att) and >I don't greatly dislike this, but I like comp.sys.3b1 better. >. . . AT&T orphaned this machine... >support . . . comes from the group itself, rather than from >the original company . . . True, but newsgroups in the comp.sys.* hierarchy normally have a manufacture's name in them whenever possible an AT&T is it. >Also, the group is meant to cover machines from >more manufacturers than just AT&T (the fabled Miniframe, for one Well . . . auhhhh, this is a problem. Someone suggested comp.sys.unixpc earlier, but no one likes "pc". Perhaps comp.sys.unix-micro would work for a multi-vendor group, although I would still prefer a vendor's name in a comp.sys.* group (i.e. I like c.s.att.3b1 best). If comp.sys.unix-micro does pass, what going to happen to comp.sys.workstation? Would there be plans to rename it to comp.sys.unix-micro.super (or something)? >> comp.sources.unix.3b1 (since we already have c.s.unix) >You'd get a "no" on that one . . . >There are sources groups for various >UNIX machines already, but not one of them is grouped underneath >comp.sources.unix. I withdraw my original suggestion; you are correct. I'm assuming general OS sources (for unix) would appear in c.s.unix anyway, so the proposed c.s.3b1 group would be for assembler and low-level sources not pertaining to unix. -- /\ Mark M Mehl, alias Superticker (Supertickler to some) <><> Internet: mehl@atanasoff.cs.IAstate.edu \/ UUCP: {{mailrus,umix}!sharkey,uunet,rutgers!ksuvax1}!atanasoff!mehl Disclaimer: You got to be kidding; who would want to claim anything I said?