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From: "Scott G. Hall" <Scott.Hall@GSC.GTE.Com>
Subject: Re: A suggestion for a terminal emulation newsgroup
Organization: GTE Government Systems
Message-ID: <377CF708.A5C1A1F6@GSC.GTE.Com>
Date: Fri, 2 Jul 1999 17:29:44 GMT
To: kermit.misc@columbia.edu
Shmuel Doron wrote:
> Jeffrey Altman wrote:
> >Shmuel Doron <sdoron@ericom.co.il> wrote:
> >: I've posted a RFD for a new newsgroup comp.terminal.emulation.
> >
> >Why do we need an additional newsgroup for terminal emulation?
> >
> >The comp.terminals newsgroup does not receive very much traffic and
> >has handled terminal.emulation discussions just fine.
>
> I've checked comp.terminals and the majority of posting to that group has
> nothing to do with terminal emulation, but with other aspects of terminals.
That may be true, but traffic is still light.
Even you still wanted to make a new newsgroup, I would make it a
specialization of the existing group. ie. comp.terminals.emulation
(not comp.terminal.emulation; note the plural)
In the past there used to be other active terminal newsgroups:
comp.terminals
comp.terminals.graphics
comp.terminals.graphics.xwindows
comp.terminals.hardware
comp.terminals.bitgraph <-- should have been under hardware
comp.terminals.tty5620 <-- should have been under hardware
comp.terminals.terminalserver
comp.terminals.terminalserver.protocols
comp.terminals.software
and the discussions on emulations tended to fall into the latter. But
alas, the traffic has gotten so light in the last couple of years that
it did not make sense to maintain them all.
--
Scott G. Hall
GTE Government Systems
North Carolina Systems Center
email: Scott.Hall@GSC.GTE.Com