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From: twakeman@hpcea.CE.HP.COM (Teriann Wakeman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Splitting up the mac groups (A formal request)
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Date: Thu, 15-Oct-87 17:56:28 EDT
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I agree, it wouldn't hurt to split Comp.sys.mac, but I think that you are
 splitting into too many fragmants. I would suggest:

comp.sys.mac.hypercard        -for all hypercard related discussions
comp.sys.mac.programming      -for questions and discussions about any
                                non-hypercard programing on the Mac
comp.sys.mac                  - for all hardware, system, and non-programming
                                application questions and discussions.
Comp.sources.mac.hypercard    -for posting of stackware
comp.binaries(or sources).mac - combine comp.sources.mac and comp.binaries.mac
                                as there does not seem to be enough activity
                                to justify both.

I feel that this kind of split would be a better fit as to what people would
be apt to read.There are many people who read comp.sys.mac who are not 
interested in programming and once the hoopla dies down probably would not be
interested in reading about Hypercard. But I think that many people are 
interested in learning and discussing old and new Macs as well as their 
applications. I'm not convinced that there is a large natural split of 
interests there. Comp.sources.mac just has not shown any appriciable 
activity. Almost all the posting has been on comp.binaries.mac. 

TeriAnn Wakeman
Hewlett-Packard Mac Users Group co-ordinator
(415)857-5057