Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!newstop!texsun!texbell!sugar!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: news.groups Subject: Re: CALL FOR DISCUSSION -- comp.sys.ibm.pc.tech Message-ID: <7364@ficc.uu.net> Date: 19 Dec 89 19:01:40 GMT References: <8912150301.AA22354@uunet.uu.net> <1989Dec19.021727.667@rand.org> Reply-To: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 29 In article <1989Dec19.021727.667@rand.org> edhall@ives.UUCP (Ed Hall) writes: > If you want to create a technical group for MSDOS hackers, call it > comp.os.msdos. I don't necessarily want to create a technical group for MS-DOS hackers. In fact, I mainly want to create a group for... > technical issues concerning > the IBM PC and decendents which have nothing to do with MSDOS. I merely referenced alt.msdos.programmer because it's been frequently brought up by people complaining about IBM-PC postings in comp.lang.c. > In fact, I > would like to see a group such as comp.sys.ibm.pc.tech explicitly > exclude OS issues (outside of those sorts of questions which arise in > the implementation of an OS). By all means, call for comp.os.msdos. I'm not going to. To begin with, the name is against my religion (:->). If people think that ms-dos specific stuff should be directed elsewhere by the charter, let me know. Since there isn't any such somewhere in the mainstream news system as it stands, I'd like to avoid that. -- `-_-' Peter da Silva. +1 713 274 5180. . 'U` Also or . "It was just dumb luck that Unix managed to break through the Stupidity Barrier and become popular in spite of its inherent elegance." -- gavin@krypton.sgi.com