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From: eberger@godot.psc.edu (Ed Berger)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: Call for discussion: Amiga Newsgroup Reorganization
Message-ID: <726@godot.psc.edu>
Date: 22 Dec 89 20:52:19 GMT
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In article <27751.2591a982@drunivac.uucp> tlimonce@drunivac.uucp writes:
>Let's rmgroup c.s.a.tech and create better divided groups.  Here's how 
>I see it:
>
>comp.sys.amiga -- Misc stuff, games, software reviews, gripes,
>questions, discussions (and a wonderful place for seemingly endless
>and annoying "my GUI/Computer/OS is better than yours" arguments. 
>[By the way, my GUI/Computer/OS *is* better than... oh nevermind. :-) ]

>comp.sys.amiga.arts -- Visual, audio, etc.  i.e. no games :-)
Shouldn't that be comp.sys.amiga.creative.mind ;-)
or comp.sys.amiga.multi-media   

>comp.sys.amiga.hardware -- Hardware reviews, config, installing, 
>problems, and development

>comp.sys.amiga.programmer -- I was going to say "software" but that 
>could be reviews, etc.  That's for comp.sys.amiga.  This would be 
>technical programming conversations.

I think comp.sys.amiga.programming would be a better name, csaprogrammer is
still too ambiguous: "Hi, I'm an amiga programmer, what games should I buy?"
The name should reflect the appropriate content for the newsgroup.

Its about time for a hardware group, Its a specialty like programming, that
requires its own following to be very effective, and it should unload the 
burden of hardware issues out of comp.sys.amiga.tech who would prefer to be
comp.sys.amiga.programming.only. and out of the general forum that already is
overloaded called comp.sys.amiga.

IMHO, etc.

-Ed Berger
eberger@b.psc.edu