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From: david@mks.com (David Rowley)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics,news.groups
Subject: Re: Proposal for comp.graphics.research newsgroup
Keywords: discussion vs. asking for information
Message-ID: <1991Apr27.114242.7969@mks.com>
Date: 27 Apr 91 11:42:42 GMT
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In article <13207@goofy.Apple.COM> turk@Apple.COM (Ken "Turk" Turkowski) writes:
>Even though I work in the field of computer graphics, I have thought about
>unsubscribing to comp.graphics because none of the articles are interesting.
>
>I propose the establish the newsgroup:
>
>	comp.graphics.research
>
>to re-establish a forum for technical discussions of a research nature.
>
>Certainly there must be other people who are interested in state-of-the-art
>developments in computer graphics, aren't there?
>
>Please post your interest to this newsgroup, so that we might all
>get a feel for the number of doers vs. users out there.
>-- 

Even as a 'user' I'd like to see this happen.  One of the reasons I
subscribed to comp.graphics was because of the high quality of postings
on current work in the field.  Over the last year or so it has degraded
into discussions on file formats and public domain raytracers -- both
noble pursuits, but not generally interesting.  I'd like to see a moderated
newsgroup, of the same sort of quality as the Ray Tracing News by
Eric Haines.  A moderated group though would give better turnaround
time and (hopefully) generate more interesting discussion.

I'm all for it -- Just as rec.humor.funny was born, perhaps it's time for
comp.graphics.interesting, or comp.graphics.signal and comp.graphics.noise.
Seriously, though, comp.graphics.research isn't a bad name.  What do
you think ? Moderated or not ?

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