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From: peterd@opus.cs.mcgill.ca (Peter Deutsch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Technical info wanted
Summary: Time to split the newsgroup?
Message-ID: <1808@opus.cs.mcgill.ca>
Date: 21 Dec 89 15:27:25 GMT
References: <17855@umn-cs.CS.UMN.EDU>
Organization: SOCS, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
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In article <17855@umn-cs.CS.UMN.EDU>, cattelan@umn-cs.CS.UMN.EDU (Russell Cattelan) writes:
> 
> [ unrelated technical stuff ]
> 
> P.S. Can we please get back to talking about the NeXT computer. 
>      Maybe we should start a new group Alt.flame.NeXT_vs_Apple

Well, I have set up my mailer to route the comp.sys.next
news group directly to my mailbox, which worked fine in
the early months of the machine. Unfortunately, as several
people have pointed out recently, there has been an
explosion of mail in this group, most of it either
user questions or discussions on the relative merits of
NeXT versus Mac (note I did _not_ say flames! :-).

Although I appreciate that much of this is of interest to
many people, I simply do _not_ have to time to wade
through all this stuff looking for technical info on the
NeXT. This is exactly why I stopped routing "sunspots" to my
mbox, and now I find that I only occasionally get around
to browsing through that group. I would like to avoid
having to di this with comp.sys.next.

As campus support and a real enthusiast for the NeXT I
want to keep abreast of developments from the company, bug
reports and fixes, new software news, etc. but I really
don't have time to read all the discussions that are
currently flooding in. I wouldn't dare to presume to ask
the posters to restrain themselves (1/2 :-) so:

[ asbestos suit on ]

Perhaps we might consider forming a suitable subgroup or
two. I would be happy with either comp.sys.next.d _or_
comp.sys.next.tech (or maybe both?). At the risk of
starting another flaming discussion/war, anyone else wish
to comment?  If the first three postings flame me for
taking up net bandwidth, would all others please post to
me and I'll summarize...

Of course, another alternative is that the Mac versus NeXt
people take their discussion to another group :-) :-) :-) :-) :-)

[ creeeeaaakkk. Is it safe to come out now? ]


			- peterd

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