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From: tlimonce@drunivac.uucp
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: Call for discussion: Amiga hardware group
Message-ID: <27235.258d60f0@drunivac.uucp>
Date: 18 Dec 89 22:13:04 GMT
References: <108.filbo@gorn.santa-cruz.ca.us>
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In article <108.filbo@gorn.santa-cruz.ca.us>, filbo@gorn.santa-cruz.ca.us (Bela Lubkin) writes:
>   Purpose: discussion about Amiga computer hardware.  Questions about
>   the purchase of new hardware; problems with existing hardware;
>   reviews of hardware products; modification and hacks of existing
>   hardware; design of new hardware.  POTENTIALLY: hardware-specific
>   programming (or does that belong in .tech; or should it go
>   unmentioned so as not to encourage it?)
     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^--well, I suggest that programming stay in .tech.

This looks like a good proposal.

Right now there is a big problem where everything is posted in
comp.sys.amiga or crossposted to comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.tech.
When everyone does this, it destroys the advantage that one receives
from separate newsgroups.

Part of the problem is that .tech isn't too descriptive.  The charter 
wasn't too clear and there was discussion at voting time to call it 
.programmer or .programming to avoid this problem.  Oh well, what is 
done is done.

I would like to see c.s.a.h, but I would also like to see c.s.a.t 
renamed to c.s.a.programmer.  Since there is no "rename" control 
message; it would be nice if this vote could be tied to a 
committment from users to not crossposting.

-Tom

P.S.  It would be nice if crossposting could be disabled.  That is,
physically by the software at each site. :-) 

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