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From: clouds@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Kathy Strong)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Any serious users of MacroMind Director?
Summary: pointers to other newsgroups
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Date: 15 Jan 91 01:13:38 GMT
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In article <6575@mace.cc.purdue.edu> katz@stable.ecn.purdue.edu writes:
>A colleague on campus, Sharon Katz (katz@stable.ecn.purdue.edu) is looking
>for other serious users of MacroMind Director.  Sharon is a designer who
>creates computer animations for educational videotapes.  She's simply
>looking for other people who do work similar to hers ... Sharon would like
>to create an informal MacroMind Director users' group, so to speak.
>

I sent Sharon mail, but thought it would be appropriate to post as well.
There are two newsgroups that will probably have a numerically small but
proportionately high number of people interested in "authoring" and such...
comp.ivideodisc (=interactive videodisc) and comp.multimedia (brand new).

One of the things I've liked about c.i so far is that unlike most of the
newsgroups, it's not fanatical about restricting subject matter--hard to
be narrow when you're talking about a field that includes graphics, 
animations, text, video, databases, and the kitchen sink... Comp.multimedia
was formed at the behest of some who felt that comp.ivideodisc was too
restrictive a title ("What about those of us who don't have a videodisc
setup?" My feeling: "If you want to talk about animation, interface design,
stuff like that, this is still the place, because nearly all of us are
doing all those things too," but hey, I havent't been here long enough
to catch a serious attack of the "We MUST stay on-topic!" virus...)

--K
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