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- From: ins739l@lindblat.cc.monash.edu.au (William Fang)
- Subject: MONTHLY POSTING: Amiga newsgroups under comp.sys.amiga.* V1.4
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- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 08:18:57 GMT
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- MONTHLY POSTING: Amiga newsgroups under comp.sys.amiga.* V1.4
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- This article contains a list of all newsgroups in comp.sys.amiga.*
- with a short description of their purpose. It is posted by me every
- month in comp.sys.amiga.introduction.
-
- Pay attention to the version number of this article. It indicates what
- kind of changes are made to the contents compared to the previous
- posting.
-
- First number changed:
- Major changes, perhaps added newsgroups. (Although not very
- likely.)
- Second number changed:
- Minor changes and clarifications.
-
-
- If you have suggestions about this article, feel free to mail them to
- me so I can improve this document. You can reach me by e-mail:
- 10667547@eng2.eng.monash.edu.au <- file server account
- kroddos@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au <_ Un*x account
-
- I'd like to thank the following people for their contributions:
-
- Kent Paul Dolan(xanthian@zorch.sf-bay.org)
- Who wrote the text of these group descriptions for the CFD III
- for the creation of new comp.sys.amiga.* newsgroups.
-
- DISCLAIMER
- Use the information in this posting at your own risk and cost.
- All opinions expressed are mine, not necessarily those of my employer.
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- Introduction
-
- All amiga related newsgroups are listed in alphabetical order. The last
- newsgroup is comp.unix.amiga which isn't under comp.sys.amiga but also
- belongs in this list.
-
-
- comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
-
- The large number of long lasting threads about "here's why the Amiga is
- better than Brand W (and vice versa)"; "here's what the other folks are
- doing and how the Amiga compares"; "why doesn't the Amiga have this Brand-X
- computer feature", "Commodore should add feature Y (at no additional
- cost)", "Commodore should recall everything and fix problem Z", benchmarks
- comparing Amigas to Amigas and to other platforms; rumors, (lack of)
- marketing complaints and suggestions for new ads, and general "do it
- better" ranting go here.
-
-
- comp.sys.amiga.announce
-
- Moderated: Fred_Fish-disks, meetings, new products, product updates,
- shareware releases, uploads to archives, tool bug reports, and other formal
- announcements go here.
-
-
- comp.sys.amiga.applications
-
- All discussions about application software without a specialised group go
- here, like: productivity, desk top publishing, personal finance, TeX,
- METAFONT, Postscript, fonts, printer drivers, word processing, utilities,
- hacks, etc. Commercial, shareware and freeware non-games, non-multimedia
- software applications talk. How to use, how to interface, and so on.
-
-
- comp.sys.amiga.audio
-
- Music applications, MIDI, synthesized speech, voice input, sampled and
- synthesized sound discussions go here.
-
-
- comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
-
- BBS software, terminal emulators and other modem software
- ({xpr,}{u,x,y,z}modem, kermit, etc.), ftp, networking, creating, using, and
- passing archives (arc, zoo, lharc, lhwarp, pkazip, compress, uuencode and
- uudecode, etc.), downloading and uploading text and binary files, email and
- news, sharing software and data, compression methods, archive site
- pointers, general machine to machine stuff. DNET, UUCP, PARNET, Ethernet,
- etc. too.
-
-
- comp.sys.amiga.emulations
-
- Discussions of the several hardware and software emulations of other
- computers (Mac, IBM-PC, Atari, C64, Apple 2 series, ZX-81(?), and more)
- that run on/in (software/hardware emulations, respectively) the Amiga.
- Includes discussions of games and applications running only under the
- emulations, since they are not of interest to the rest of the Amiga
- community.
-
-
- comp.sys.amiga.games
-
- Talking about buying and playing games; casual reviews and discussions go
- on here.
- Archival quality games reviews should go to c.s.a.reviews, "used games for
- sale" ads should go to c.s.a.marketplace, and games software design
- discussions should go to c.s.a.programmer or rec.games.programmer.
-
-
- comp.sys.amiga.graphics
-
- Charts, graphs, screen hacks, ray tracing, using graphics standards on the
- Amiga (Renderman, PHIGS, GKS, CGM, Postscript, PIC, X windows), and other
- still picture or completely non-serious graphics discussions go here. Image
- packaging discussions also belong here or in c.s.a.datacomm, depending on
- graphics or data compression focus.
-
-
- comp.sys.amiga.hardware
-
- Hardware discussions go here. Hardware developers', hobbyists', and users'
- "smell of solder" talk and assistance forum.
- Formal hardware product reviews belong in c.s.a.reviews.
-
-
- comp.sys.amiga.introduction
-
- Monitored: This is where newusers get introduced to the c.s.a.* groups, and
- to the Amiga, and where experienced people can read and write answers to
- common questions. Frequently asked questions postings, how to use the
- c.s.a.* groups, and other standard and slow expiring postings go here, also
- newusers questions and the answers to them from sympathetic gurus go here.
- The goal is that all "normal operation" questions and answers go here
- rather than in the more technical groups.
-
-
- comp.sys.amiga.marketplace
-
- Mail order and retail vendor reviews, where to find it, where to get good
- prices, informal product ratings; talk about buying and selling stuff for
- the Amiga. Personal Amiga hardware and software "for sale" and "wanted" ads
- go here too (But preferably in misc.forsale.computers.).
-
-
- comp.sys.amiga.misc
-
- The c.s.a.* general talk group. Post a multifaceted new thread here in
- preference to crossposting. Crossposted articles within the c.s.a.* groups
- should use this group as the Followup-To line entry. This group replaces
- the former comp.sys.amiga.
-
-
- comp.sys.amiga.multimedia
-
- Animations, video, television, and multimedia combinations of them with
- graphics and music and speech. The showcase for the Amiga's five years as
- the television studio microcomputer multimedia platform of choice.
-
-
- comp.sys.amiga.programmer
-
- Software developers' and programming hobbyists' "code cobbling" talk and
- assistance forum.
-
-
- comp.sys.amiga.reviews
-
- Moderated, archived: where to put your formal reviews of new stuff for the
- Amiga: hardware and freeware, shareware, or commercial serious and game
- software.
-
- 1) The guidelines are not posted each month. The volume for monthly
- postings was beginning to approximate that of the regular traffic.
- Instead, an index is posted monthly. This points to _all_ prevoiusly
- posted reviews and all of the administrative postings. Instructions on
- how to retrieve back reviews from the archive are also in the index.
-
- 2) The group, as mentioned above, is archived. I maintain the archive and
- the archive server. Instructions are in the monthly index.
-
- 3) I also allow informal reviews to appear, with few restrictions. These
- are intended to allow people to give a short review without expending a
- large amount of effort.
-
-
-
- comp.unix.amiga
-
- Amiga Minix and Unix SYSV4 and successors, all Amiga specific aspects will
- be discussed here.
-
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-
-
- comp.binaries.amiga
-
- This groups was created to pass binary files to people who don't have
- access to ftp. You will find binary file posted to this group will come
- uuencoded and shared. On the Amiga you will need two programs to undo
- these files, unshar and uudecode. You can find Unshar on Fish
- disk 287 and uudecode on Fish disk 92.
-
- alt.sys.amiga.uucp
- alt.sys.amiga.uucp.patches
-
- These alt groups are for Matt Dillon UUCP package for the Amiga. Other
- UUCP packages such as AmigaUUCP Plus and Cnews are also discussed here.
- The first group is for general discusstions on the UUCP packages in
- general. The second one is for posting patches, upgrades, large source
- and binary files.
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