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From: fritzz@megatek.UUCP (Frieder Knauss)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: More discussion on fate of comp.graphics?
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Date: 11 May 91 16:52:27 GMT
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>comp.graphics?  I can think of:
>
>comp.graphics.file-formats	<--\
>comp.graphics.file-conversion	<---- not necessarily the same thing
>comp.graphics.ray-tracing
>comp.graphics.image-processing
>comp.graphics.pixutils
>comp.graphics.hardware
>comp.graphics.algorithms
>comp.graphics.misc (or comp.graphics -- catch-all group)
>comp.graphics.visualization (don't forget this one 8-)

no no no no no no no!
#BHO
c.g is a moderately high volume group, but a lot of that is requests for file
format converters/source code to do homework with/other mundane stuff. Most
of those posts come from people who do not regularly read this news group and
are probably not interested in extended discussions (as I imagine those in the
other groups would be.) Spawning off a c.g.research would present a forum 
where a variety of topics could be discussed, most of them of interest to most
people. Non regular readers would still go to c.g with their requests, and 
c.g.research would be mostly left alone. I think one new group is enough, and I
think c.g.research is an appropriate name for attracting just those people
interested in exactly that: Computer graphics research.
#EHO

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