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- From: hugh@kink.PhaedraV.On.Ca (Hugh D. Gamble)
- Newsgroups: alt.sys.amiga.uucp
- Subject: Re: proposal alt.sys.amiga.cnews/cnews.patches
- Message-ID: <qg3bs*000@kink.PhaedraV.On.Ca>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 14:09:30 EST
- References: <ciaran.3jif@aldhfn.akron.oh.us> <rp7as*ST7@kink.PhaedraV.On.Ca>
- <1h3i0uINN4tq@uwm.edu>
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- In article <1h3i0uINN4tq@uwm.edu>, Gregory R Block writes:
-
- > With the coming of SANA-II and new network software, and the growing
- > demand for networking across the ENTIRE Amiga community, people have
-
- I don't see how SANA II will affect user demand. A new SANA II version
- of an existing networking product may make application developers
- happy, but it isn't going to affect whether everyone rushes out to buy
- an expansion box and ethernet card to connect the A500 in their rec
- room with the A4000 in their study. Now the availability of mumble
- mumble might encourage new network applications if homogeneous Amiga
- networks gain popularity in classrooms. In any case this has little
- relation to uucp or usenet news. For now, networking fits under
- comp.sys.amiga.datacomm. If there's ever a need to split out a
- separate .networking, then we can do it.
-
- > I propose not a "uucp" group, which is merely a facet of what
- > networking is on the amiga, but a different group altogether.
- >
- > Comp.sys.amiga.networks should become a reality.
-
- How would that fit with comp.sys.amiga.datacomm? Do we really want to
- merge everything already covered in .uucp into a more general group?
- Many people here have been arguing for splitting .uucp into more
- specific groups rather than going the other way.
-
- > This could cover ALL Amiga networking software, from ParNet, to DNet
-
- So you want to take them out of .datacomm? What would be left in
- .datacomm?
-
- > (which has been seeing increased usage as of lately due to some
- > innovative software being made as servers for it, and ports across
-
- I was a little shocked when I saw an IRC client for DNET. DNET is, um,
- interesting, but I'd much rather run an IRC client over IP.
-
- > There is going to be a leap of information in this area, and if one is
- > not created in anticipation of this group, you're going to see a lot
- > of scattered posts about it.
-
- That would be nice, but it's not usually reasonable to create new
- usenet groups based on hopeful expectations of the future. If Amiga
- networking becomes a really hot topic, we can split up .datacomm into
- .telecomm and .networking, or something. Let's wait for an exhibited
- need first.
-
- > I'll take SLIP and GfxBase's X as an example. How many times have you
- > heard about it? More importantly, where? It varies, from
- > comp.sys.amiga.applications, to comp.sys.amiga.datacomm, and even in
- > .programmer. Now, I'm not proposing getting GfxBase their own group
-
- That will always happen. People's interests and needs cover different
- groups and there are cross posts and posts in the groups that people
- consider "home".
-
- > Lets do it now, and not wait for 3.1 to flood our mailboxes and nntp
- > servers with things that are off-topic with nowhere to go...
-
- No, lets wait. Here's something for people to do before proposing new
- groups: Look at what other computer specific hierarchies are doing and
- how they're split up. net.voters are big on consistency and precedent
- as arguments for the usefulness of a new group.
-
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