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- From: emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti)
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- Subject: Re: RFD: comp.os.ms-windows.networking
- Date: 21 Dec 1992 23:29:46 GMT
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- Stephen C. Trier (trier@slc6.ins.cwru.edu) wrote:
- : In article <shephard.724735838@sfu.ca> shephard@fraser.sfu.ca (Gordon Shephard) writes:
- : >> comp.os.ms-windows.networking
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- : As a reader of comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc and comp.sys.novell, I question
- : why this group is needed? There's plenty of coverage for networking under
- : MS-Windows, and since the questions are different for different networking
- : suites, I see no need for an all-encompassing "MS Windows" networking group.
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- My original suggestion when this came up was to make a special narrow
- little niche for 'winsock', the MS Windows sockets interface for TCP/IP.
- Probably 'comp.os.ms-windows.winsock'.
-
- Just to be clear on why I would even care at all - the desire is
- to come up with a newsgroup that is a suitable conduit for discussion
- of matters taht involve the Internet, that involve MS Windows, and
- that involve development of software that makes the Internet easier
- to use under MS Windows. Getting a common sockets interface
- (winsock) is necessary but not sufficient to start having people
- develop tools like Gopher, World Wide Web, multi-media e-mail, etc.
- that work under not just one vendor's networking stack but that
- have some hope of being reusable across five or ten different
- people's systems.
-
- A 'winsock' mailing list is already going, but it speaks more to the people
- banging out the spec than it does people writing codes to use it.
-
- A general 'networking' group might get traffic - a lot of traffic! - but it's
- going to be less focussed than it needs to be to get the attention of
- busy people.
-
- Edward Vielmetti, vice president for research, Msen Inc. emv@Msen.com
- Msen Inc., 628 Brooks, Ann Arbor MI 48103 +1 313 998 GLOB
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