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Subject: Re: comp.cog-eng
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Date: Wed, 29-Jul-87 14:28:12 EDT
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In article <3244@venera.isi.edu> smoliar@vaxa.isi.edu.UUCP (Stephen Smoliar) writes:
>In article <5108@utcsri.UUCP> peterr@utcsri.UUCP writes:
>>
>>So, I suggest that comp.cog-eng be deleted and comp.humfac be created.
>>
>I strongly agree.  When I first entered the RN community, I though "cog-eng"
>had something to do with cognition and engineering.  The idea of human factors
>never occurred to me.  When I started reading the articles, this confusion
>was reinforced.  Eventually, I unsubscribed because I seemed to be seeing
>the same material on comp.ai.  A newsgroup for human factors is a good idea,
>but it should be more explicitly labeled as such.

It would seem obvious that a newsgroup for discussing human factors
should have a name that humans can figure out!

(Or is this another case of the shoemaker's children going barefoot?)

Snoopy
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"And it's a middle-endian machine with trinary logic."
"They would do that."