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From: jxh@cup.portal.com (Jim - Hickstein)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Looking for group-creation champion among news.admins
Message-ID: <10385@cup.portal.com>
Date: 23 Oct 88 05:47:34 GMT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
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At the risk of not being heard (I gather that many news.admins have their
Portal earplugs in; another story), and at the risk of drawing the wrath
of Unix types against a (dare I say) rival, namely OS/2 (I realize that
they are hardly comparable and cannot, therefore, be rivals in reality,
ignoring the marketplace), I nevertheless make a public plea for a champion
to come forward and help me create a new group, comp.os.os2.  I am most
definitely not an experienced news.admin, not, in fact, being responsible
for news administration at any site, whatsoever.  I am merely an interested
news reader (and, I might point out, one of the largely-silent majority of
normal Portal users who are disturbed by the Portal earplugs that slammed
shut when certain individuals behaved, shall we say, idiosyncratically).

I am, due to circumstances beyond my control*, about to embark on a development
program using OS/2, and I could sure use some moral and technical support
from the net.  I have identified a handful of other networlders who are
interested in OS/2, and who voice their support of the creation of a group
to contain our ugly mess :-).  However, I have not the experience in such
matters to assure myself or others that I would undertake its creation in
what the news.admins would consider due and proper.  Will not one of you
take up my cause, even if only to see it done properly and well over?

Please reply to jxh@cup.portal.com, or ...!sun!portal!cup.portal.com!jxh,
in spite of other Portal users over whom I have no control, alas!

Yr. most humble and obedient supplicant,

Jim Hickstein.

(only half :-)

* Sun Microsystems' shipping schedule put their machines out of our
reach, both financially and temporally.  I *wanted* to use Unix, really
I did...