Path: utzoo!censor!geac!lethe!yunexus!ists!helios.physics.utoronto.ca!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!news.funet.fi!uta!kielo!av From: av@kielo.uta.fi (Arto V. Viitanen) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps Subject: Re: Spreadsheet newsgroup Message-ID: Date: 5 Feb 91 07:23:33 GMT Article-I.D.: kielo.AV.91Feb5092333 References: <1991Feb2.153921.12023@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> <1809@netmbx.UUCP> <1991Feb4.015809.27211@agate.berkeley.edu> Sender: news@uta.fi Reply-To: av@uta.fi (Arto Viitanen) Followup-To: comp.os.msdos.apps Organization: University of Tampere, Finland Lines: 21 Nntp-Posting-Host: uta.fi In-reply-to: raymond@math.berkeley.edu's message of 4 Feb 91 01:58:09 GMT >>>>> On 4 Feb 91 01:58:09 GMT, raymond@math.berkeley.edu (Raymond Chen) said: Raymond> In article <1809@netmbx.UUCP>, acunger@netmbx (Arnie Unger) writes: >stone@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Glenn Stone) writes: >>I can't seem to find a forum on the net for discussing spreadsheets,... >I agree that there should be a formal newsgroup for spreadsheets. Raymond> Why not just use comp.os.msdos.apps? That's what it was created Raymond> for... Traffic in it is pretty much nonexistent, so there doesn't Raymond> seem to be any real impetus to subdivide apps into apps.spreadsheet, Raymond> apps.wordproc, apps.database etc. That's not a good analog: there are newsgroups comp.databases and comp.text, which both have discussion (also) on PC products. Raymond> Your friendly FAQ maintaner, --rjc -- Arto V. Viitanen email: av@kielo.uta.fi University Of Tampere, av@ohdake.cs.uta.fi Finland