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From: roberts@cognos.uucp (Robert Stanley)
Newsgroups: comp.ai,comp.cog-eng,news.admin,news.misc
Subject: Re: comp.cog-eng
Message-ID: <1204@cognos.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 29-Jul-87 20:40:41 EDT
Article-I.D.: cognos.1204
Posted: Wed Jul 29 20:40:41 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 1-Aug-87 11:47:14 EDT
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Reply-To: roberts@cognos.UUCP (Robert Stanley)
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Summary: comp.cog-eng -> comp.chi

In article <5113@utcsri.UUCP> alee@utcsri.UUCP writes:

>... I think a more appropriate name than comp.humfac is "comp.chi" or
>"comp.hci".  These names are more indicative of the field.

I vote for comp.chi, which dovetails with SIGCHI of the ACM, but would settle
for comp.hci.  Either carries the flavour of the group well.  I also suspect
that it would attract considerably more attention than at present, especially
given the success of this year's Toronto SIGCHI conference.

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