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From: rdippold@cancun.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: comp.graphics.interesting -- More discussion on fate of CG
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Date: 15 May 91 18:12:53 GMT
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In article <10728@skye.cs.ed.ac.uk> jsp@lfcs.ed.ac.uk (John Spackman) writes:
>woolstar@nntp-server.caltech.edu (John D. Woolverton) writes:
>>
>>   I have been following these swells of support for news groups
>>without all the (how do I convert blah, or display blah on my VGA),
>>for quite some time.  There hasn't been enough momentum to actually
>>create lots of little groups, and I agree that we shouldn't stomp
>>all over comp.graphics as it exists.
>>   So my proposal is to create a moderated:
>>	comp.graphics.interesting
>
>Unofortunately, names such as "comp.graphics.interesting" or
>"comp.graphics.research" may well be attractive to first-time
>news-ers looking for gurus to answer VGA queries.  I'm not sure
>which "graphics" newsgroups are around in the US, but in the UK my
>".newsrc" file contains the following:-
>
>comp.graphics:
>comp.graphics.digest:
>alt.graphics.pixutils:
>comp.graphics.visualization:
>usrgroup.graphics:

Maybe what we need, then is not add to comp.graphics, but rather to turn
alt.graphics.pixutils into comp.graphics.pixutils.  It doesn't have to be
moderated (who would want the job?), it just has to be carried everywhere
that comp.graphics is.
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