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From: mesard@bbn.com (Wayne Mesard)
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Subject: MACL newsgroup? (was Re: Information Exchange)
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Date: 23 Feb 90 17:27:01 GMT
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arie@dip.eecs.umich.edu (Arie Covrigaru) writes:
>I am using MACL exclusively and, like on any large Lisp
>system, sometimes I have problems that are not mine.  When
>I programmed on the Xerox 1100 series Lisp Machines, there
>was a place where I could exchange information (and still
>is), public domain hacks, complain about bugs in the system
>etc.  Are there enough people using MACL to form such a group?

I heard something about a MACL mailing list based at MIT.  But I think
it's been dead for a while.  I'm surprised that there's not more MACL
traffic in this newsgroup.  I think there's likely enough interest to
form a comp.lang.lisp.macl group.  Every time I write a new menu item
or FRED (the MACL editor) command, I have a feeling that dozens of other
people have already done the same thing, and that dozens more could make
use of it.  It would be nice to have a clearinghouse for this kind of
stuff.

I don't have the time to run a newsgroup creation drive.  And if and
when news.groups gets wind of this idea, there will be hundreds of
self-righteous  net.guardians wanting to know 1) Why you want a
new newsgroup when there's very little MACL traffic in existing
newsgroups. 2) Why don't you put this group under comp.sys.mac?

The answers are: 1) Because there are other valid reasons for creating
groups besides solving a bandwidth problem in an existing group. 2) To
give nay-sayers something to complain about.

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