Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!unido!nixpbe!mboen
From: mboen@nixpbe.UUCP (Martin Boening)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Splitting into several discussion groups
Message-ID: <220@nixpbe.UUCP>
Date: 3 Mar 89 07:13:26 GMT
References: <9848@louie.udel.EDU>
Organization: Nixdorf Computer AG, Paderborn, Germany
Lines: 28

In order to alleviate the impression that it is the opinion of a minority
I want to add a posting to this discussion.

I'm all for keeping minix in ONE SINGLE group. It makes finding useful
information abount minix a lot easier than scanning several newsgroups.
And besides: If certain articles don't interest you: there is a newsreader
called nn that lets you choose the articles you wish to read in a newsgroup
from a menu. By making it clear in the subject-line, whether an article
is ST-specific or PC-specific (write ST or PC somewhere in the subject
line) or whether its of general interest (neither ST nor PC appear in the
subject line) the problem of having to scan through too many articles can
be reduced to (almost) none. Besides, I'm going to continue reading every-
thing that sounds interesting, be it ST- or PC-specific or general info.

However, DON'T POST BINARIES IF YOU HAVE SOURCE. Everybody running Minix
has a C-Compiler. It's a lot more fun to find a utility written for the
PC and be able to adapt it to ST-Minix than to look at a binary for the
PC and swearing, because it sounds interesting but you can't do anything
with it.

Enough said. Have a nice weekend.

Martin

Email:

USA : ...!uunet!philabs!linus!nixbur!mboening.pad
!USA: {...|mcvax}!unido!nixpbe!mboening.pad