Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!cunixf.cc.columbia.edu!cunixa.cc.columbia.edu!cy5 From: cy5@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Conway Yee) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: CFD: comp.os.minix. Message-ID: <1991Mar1.151301.25998@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> Date: 1 Mar 91 15:13:01 GMT References: <18baba4b.ARN1933@acdhq.north.de> Sender: usenet@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (The Network News) Reply-To: cy5@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Conway Yee) Distribution: comp Organization: Columbia University Lines: 25 Nntp-Posting-Host: cunixa.cc.columbia.edu In article <18baba4b.ARN1933@acdhq.north.de> kaba@acdhq.north.de writes: >Hi! > >What about creating subgroups that can hold minix-topics that are related >to a special hardware, like "Does minix run on my 386?" or "Is there a >drive available for my Amiga-harddrive-controller?" and so on? IMHO, having newsgroups like comp.os.minix.atari or comp.os.minix.mac would tend to fragment comp.os.minix without much benefit. Much of the traffic here is not machine specific. Besides, the goal should be to make Minix as similar as possible between platforms- not to make machine specific add ons. A group like comp.os.minix.sources, however, would make sense. It would make the task of archiving sources a bit easier. People who are not interested in the sources do not have to read the group. BTW, if you notice, much of the sources posted here tend not to be platform specific. Origami, the last big post, is an editor. I would think that origami couldn't care less where it is run. Conway Yee, N2JWQ yee@ming.mipg.upenn.edu (preferred) 231 S. Melville St. cy5@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (forwarded to above) Philadelphia, Pa 19139 yee@bnlx26.nsls.bnl.gov (rarely checked) (215) 386-1312