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From: jim@aob.aob.mn.org (Jim Anderson)
Newsgroups: news.groups,comp.lsi.cad,sci.electronics
Subject: Re: CAD/CAM/CAE newsgroup proposal
Message-ID: <208@aob.aob.mn.org>
Date: 23 Apr 89 23:27:00 GMT
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Reply-To: jim@aob.aob.mn.org (Jim Anderson)
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In article <10542@rama.UUCP> news@rama.UUCP (Usenet News Admin) writes:
>There seems to be no newsgroups devoted to (or even oriented
>towards electronic design automation issues like printed circuit
>board design, schematic capture, circuit simulation programs,
>etc.  The closest is comp.lsi.cad, which is IC-design specific,
>leaving PCB and hybrid folks out in the cold.
>
>Here's some suggestions to get the ball rolling:
>comp.cad or comp.cadcam - General discussion concerning CAD/CAM/CAE
>comp.cad.pcb - Printed Circuit Board design
>comp.cad.hybrid - Hybrid circuit design

I would like to see the CAD/CAM groups (if they get created) created as
two major groups:
	comp.cad.mech	Mechanical CAD/CAM
	comp.cad.elec	Electrical CAD/CAM

The main reason for this is that most of the electronics CAD/CAM are mostly
related, as is much of the mechanical related stuff.  This also keeps the
number of groups minimized, as I don't expect enough traffic to keep a half
dozen groups active.  Besides, as small as the general traffic related to
CAD/CAM is (I haven't seen a half dozen articles in the last year), perhaps
a mailing list would be sufficient.
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