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From: c506634@umcvmb.missouri.edu (Eric Edwards)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Another Amiga reorganization needed?
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Date: 17 Jun 91 06:50:13 GMT
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In article <1991Jun16.014324.532@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) writes:
>
> While I'm doing this, let's pull the idea of
> chopping up c.s.a.hardware back into the fire and
> the crosspost list, too. Last time, I proposed a
> ..design, .standard, .3rd-party, and .hackers
> subdivision; this gets uglier, 'cause "hardware"
> doesn't have a pretty abbreviation, but how about
> these as flat subdivision names?
 
Is it really *that* bad to have another physical hierarchy?  There's going to
be a logical hierarchy anyway.  Why fake it so that it just looks flat?
 
>
>         c.s.a.hdwr-design
>         c.s.a.hdwr-standard  (or hdwr-stock)
>         c.s.a.hdwr-3rd-party (whew, just made 14 characters)
 
I would prefer comp.sys.amiga.hardware.add-on (or a mutation)
There's no real reason to put 2091 discussions in one group and GVP Series
II discussion in another.
 
>         c.s.a.hdwr-hacking
>
> Again, vanilla questions about connecting a disk
> driver and hard disk and drive software together
> belong in c.s.a.introduction, not .hardware or its
> proposed replacements, but it will take some firm
> guidance (in EMAIL) to make that happen.
>
 
I dunno.  The name sounds elitest but I don't have any better ideas.
 
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