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From: jk87377@cc.tut.fi (Juhana Kouhia)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics,news.groups
Subject: Re: Proposal for comp.graphics.research newsgroup
Keywords: discussion vs. asking for information
Message-ID: <1991Apr28.084915.22463@cc.tut.fi>
Date: 28 Apr 91 08:49:15 GMT
References: <13207@goofy.Apple.COM>
Organization: Tampere University of Technology
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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.
>
>	comp.graphics.research
>to re-establish a forum for technical discussions of a research nature.

Good idea.
Please, people, do not suggest any other group; we don't need any
comp.graphics.pics.gif, etc. news group debate and flame war.
Don't we?

Of course, you can suggest to subdivide the comp.graphics news group
to, say, ten new news groups - but, think about what happened last
time we tryed to make several news groups instead of one: We didn't
get any new newsgroups.

What we should write in this new group?
We do not send requests or pictures to it, at least.
We do not discuss about making or installing the image processing
package (gif, tiff, discussions) -- there's alt.pixutils for that
and that all is 'old' stuff anyway.

We do discuss about new algorithms including all computer graphics
fields. Maybe we keep the level of the talkings high -- at the
SIGGRAPH level at least.
Unfortunately, nobody do would like to discuss about really new and
future research - so, we might realize that and just talk about what
is published allready.
For keeping the level of the articles high, this news group should be
moderated. Otherwise someone will anyway post requests to that
group just because readers, *guess*, know more about CG than readers
of the comp.graphics.
But, there's problems in moderated news group, so, we might just
selfmoderate and think about what to post and what not.

If the level of the topics is reasonable high and interesting enough,
there could be more professionals reading this group.

Juhana Kouhia