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From: monty@sagpd1.UUCP (Monty Saine)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: Call for discussion: Amiga hardware group
Message-ID: <565@sagpd1.UUCP>
Date: 20 Dec 89 16:39:38 GMT
References: <108.filbo@gorn.santa-cruz.ca.us>
Reply-To: monty@sagpd1.UUCP (Monty Saine)
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In article <108.filbo@gorn.santa-cruz.ca.us> Bela Lubkin <filbo@gorn.santa-cruz.ca.us> writes:
>both 'art' and 'games' could be subsumed ('recreation' comes close but
>ignores the large percentage of Amiga artists that are doing commercial
>work), that group might also be worth considering.

    How about something like comp.sys.amiga.creative since the Amiga is
    the computer for the creative mind. Anything along this line would
    help CBM's advertising and that helps us all.
>
>Given a hardware group, what name is appropriate?  There are really only
>two choices here: comp.sys.amiga.hardware or comp.sys.amiga.hw.  I could
    
    There is another choice comp.sys.amiga.tech.hardware since hardware
    is really a technical area is it not ???

>  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?)
>

Please e-mail constructive responses to me and flames to /dev/NULL.
I do not read news.group and have no time to add more.

Monty Saine