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From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi)
Newsgroups: news.groups,comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: comp.archives.msdos (was Re: cSplit of cbip.d)
Message-ID: <1991Mar26.093052.22732@uwasa.fi>
Date: 26 Mar 91 09:30:52 GMT
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In article <EMV.91Mar25134414@poe.aa.ox.com> emv@ox.com (Ed Vielmetti) writes:
>In article <3289@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr) writes:
>
>     comp.binaries.ibm.pc.wanted
>	   For all the requests for programs and parts thereof
>     comp.binaries.ibm.pc.ftp
>	   For all the ftp sites to post their list of what they have
>	   online.
>
>perhaps a "comp.archives.msdos" would be the suitable name for a piece
>of the split of the .d group, ie.
>
>comp.archives.msdos  --  archives and announcements of ms-dos software
>
>moderated, with input from Timo, Keith, etc.  cross-post in part 1 of
>the entries from cbip to include the header and subject information
>and where to ftp it.  put on archive-name headers like those in
>comp.archives and make it equally usable.

I have been thinking about Bill Davidsen's suggestion to split the
comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d group, and it really that this might be well
warranted.  (I won't repeat here the arguments for it in this
posting).  If the group is split, I would, however, suggest just two
groups:
         comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
         comp.binaries.ibm.pc.archives
   The former would from now on concentrate on problems and
questions about the posting and getting the binaries from the news,
and would be strictly orchestrated by Bill. 
   The comp.binaries.ibm.pc.archives group would discuss and give
information about the existence and availability of shareware, PD,
and freeware utilities for the PC from archives (by anonymous ftp or
mail servers).  It would also discuss these utilities.  Problems and
views on the programs and the packages, and so on.  Moderators of
the PC archives (like Keith Petersen and I) would take their act to
this new comp.binaries.ibm.pc.archives group. 
   I think that the suggested three-way split might cause too much
problems about what goes in where.  Let's take both the queries and
the announcements about programs to a single, new group. 

...................................................................
Prof. Timo Salmi        
Moderating at garbo.uwasa.fi anonymous ftp archives 128.214.12.37
School of Business Studies, University of Vaasa, SF-65101, Finland
Internet: ts@chyde.uwasa.fi Funet: gado::salmi Bitnet: salmi@finfun