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From: fox@bnrmtv.UUCP (Richard Fox)
Newsgroups: net.news.group,net.news.adm,net.micro.atari,net.micro.cbm,net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: New Group Needed
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Date: Tue, 26-Nov-85 21:24:43 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov 26 21:24:43 1985
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> 
> 
> Several new groups are needed and several old groups should be renamed:
> 
> net.micro.cbm   should be net.micro.cbm8  for Commodore 8 bit machines
> net.micro.amiga should be net.micro.cbm16 for Commodore 16 bit machines
> net.micro.atari should be split into
> 			  net.micro.atari8 for Atari 8 bit machines
> 			  net.micro.atari16 for Atari 16 bit machines
> 
> Similarly if either Commodore or Atari come out with 32 bit machines, then new
> subgroups could be established.  ST and Amiga are too specific names, a more
> general generic name should be established so that if Atari or Commodore come
> out with new 16 bit machines with different names, the catagories would still
> be appropriate.

I disagree with the above. If we start breaking everything up into groups
based on certain aspects of the subject we would have:

net.jokes.clean
net.jokes.offensive
net.jokes.bad
net.jokes.notunderstandable
net.jokes.notreallyajoke

I think you get the picture! I like having the .cbm and .atari groups the
way they are because I can post articles that may reflect all commodores and
not have to post the article in many places. 


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rich