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From: boomsma@ark.UUCP (Raoul Boomsma)
Newsgroups: net.news.group,net.news.adm,net.micro.atari
Subject: Re: New Group Needed
Message-ID: <604@ark.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 29-Nov-85 05:59:56 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov 29 05:59:56 1985
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Reply-To: boomsma@ark.UUCP (Raoul Boomsma)
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In article <1639@cbosgd.UUCP> mark@cbosgd.UUCP (Mark Horton) writes:
>This is an obvious use of subgroups.  The 520st group should be called
>net.micro.atari.520st.  net.micro.amiga probably should have been
>net.micro.cbm.amiga, and net.micro.mac should be net.micro.apple.mac.

I think it isn't very useful to give the Atari ST group a name like
'net.micro.atari.520st'.  It should better be called 'net.micro.st'
or 'net.micro.atarist'.  Reasons:

It creates less subdirectories than you want to create. Much news
administrators won't be glad if the tree for net.micro is expanded.
This is also the case for net.micro.amiga and net.micro.mac.

The name suggests this newsgroup can't be read by 260ST or 520ST+
owners.  Better choose some general names for one type of micro-
computer.

My opinion is that a newsgroup 'net.micro.st' has to be created
soon!
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	Raoul Boomsma
	Vrije Universiteit
	Amsterdam
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