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From: mehl@cs.iastate.edu (Mark M Mehl)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: Comp.Sys.Mac reorg -- 2/23/90 update
Message-ID: <710@dino.cs.iastate.edu>
Date: 27 Feb 90 08:10:59 GMT
References: <38902@apple.Apple.COM> <38904@apple.Apple.COM>
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chuq@Apple.COM (Chuq Von Rospach) writes:
>chuq@Apple.COM (Chuq Von Rospach) writes:
>>Should more subgroups of c.s.m.apps be created? c.s.m.apps.wordproc and
>>c.s.m.apps.database 

Hold everything.  Let's create c.s.m.appl FIRST before we start
breaking it up.  I've never heard of splitting up a news group before
it was created.  Please slow down.  Let's see how c.s.m.appl works
out first.

>>New Surveys:
>>(1) Please send me e-mail with your preferred name for what is currently
>>    comp.sys.mac.os. Rank the following by preference:

>	My preferences:
>	(1) c.s.m.system
>	(2) c.s.m.sysfold
>	(3) c.s.m.os
>	(NA) c.s.m.sysf

That's strange; where is comp.os.mac on the list.  The comp.os.*
hierarchy is a well established hierarchy on Usenet and that's where
this OS news group belongs.  Please read below:

| Newsgroups: news.groups
| Subject: Re: Splitting hairs in (was RE: Splitting Comp.Sys.Mac again)
| 
| peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:
| >In article <638@dino.cs.iastate.edu> mehl@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu writes
| >>about a "comp.sys.mac.os"...
| 
| >I suppose there might be some point to a comp.os.mac group, since there's
| >a comp.os.os2 which is no less hardware-dependent than MacOS.
| 
| You are right Peter.  The name you propose "comp.os.mac" is the
| correct one over the one I proposed (comp.sys.mac.os) back in early
| Feburary.  Currently, the Mac runs Unix (aux), OS/9, MacOS, and
| perhaps Minix.  A Mac user should be able to select the appropriate
| OS for his needs from the comp.os.* hierarchy as he does with any
| other computer systems on Usenet.  We need to name the MacOS news
| group comp.os.mac so it conforms with the established comp.os.*
| hierarchy on Usenet.  We already have comp.os.unix.aux for the Mac
| now on Usenet.  (... or was that comp.unix.aux?)


>>Proposal 6: Creation of group comp.sys.mac.apps.games.
>>Proposal 7: Creation of group comp.sys.mac.apps.comm.
>>Proposal 9: Creation of group comp.sys.mac.announce
>>Proposal 8: Creation of group comp.sys.mac.virus.

Have we gone news-group creation crazy?  Let's see how proposals 1-5
work out on Usenet before we split things up anymore.

Also, please remember viruses are an OS issue and virualware are
special kinds of cDEV and INITs, which belong in comp.os.mac.  Now if
the traffic in comp.os.mac gets so heavy that we need to split it,
then let's split it into comp.os.mac.virus (rather than c.s.m.virus).
But let's not start a MacOS virus group just yet.
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