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From: mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Proposal to split up comp.os.minix
Message-ID: <109.24078AE4@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us>
Date: 26 Feb 89 04:03:30 GMT
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I've only been on this newsgroup for 5 months, but I've noticed that 
there are a lot of people that read this group that don't have both an 
ST and an IBM.  Thus, either the ST or the IBM binary/source postings 
are useless (depending on which machine you have).  Therefore, I think 
that it would be a good idea to split up comp.os.minix into 5 groups:

        comp.binaries.minix.ibm - IBM Minix binary postings.
        comp.binaries.minix.st  - Atari ST Minix binary postings.
        comp.sources.minix.ibm  - IBM Minix source postings.
        comp.sources.minix.st   - Atari ST Minix source postings.
        comp.os.minix           - Current comp.os.minix group, but 
                                  without binary or source postings.

The binary and sources groups wouldn't have to be moderated, or they 
could be moderated by a "mirror" that just packs up all submissions with 
appropriate headers, or they could be moderated by a real, live, human 
moderator.

Note that this is NOT a formal call for votes.  It is an attempt to 
gauge the net's feelings about such a split.

Also note that I have neither the time nor the resources to moderate a 
group, so the moderators (if any) would have to be someone other than 
me.

--  
Marc Unangst
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