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From: jacob@blackbox.gore.COM (Jacob Gore)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: CALL FOR DISCUSSION: comp.text.TeX
Message-ID: <8912171610.aa05091@blackbox.gore.com>
Date: 17 Dec 89 23:10:49 GMT
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/ news.announce.newgroups / piet@cs.ruu.nl (Piet van Oostrum) / Dec 16, 1989 /

The group sounds OK, though there's hardly enough traffic in comp.text to
require a split.

> Now about the name:

No way.  Keep it lower case.

> 1. It hono(u)rs Knuth in that this is HiS preferred spelling.

Not good enough.  Same argument could be used for most current groups
(Comp.Sys.NeXT?).

> 2. Isn't it nice to have the first newsgroup with capital letters in its
> name?

No.

> 3. While pressing the shift key you have an additional 2 seconds to think
>    about your posting.

Man, what software do YOU use to post???  (Yeah, I know, it was a joke...)

Jacob
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