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- From: d92-jhe@dront.nada.kth.se (Johan Hellman)
- Subject: Re: Does IBM have an Internet email address?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan11.113200.13655@kth.se>
- Sender: usenet@kth.se (Usenet)
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- Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
- References: <C0Do0D.3Kn@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <1993Jan5.212952.29167@zooid.guild.org> <1993Jan10.072115.12666@ringer.cs.utsa.edu> <C0nB6I.81q@panix.com>
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 11:32:00 GMT
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- In <C0nB6I.81q@panix.com> os2man@panix.com (Larry Salomon Jr.) writes:
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- >In <1993Jan10.072115.12666@ringer.cs.utsa.edu> mlevis@ringer.cs.utsa.edu (Mike Levis) writes:
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- >>Would comp.os.os2.beta fit the bill? This proposed newsgroup would
- >>allow beta OS/2 2.x users to trade information. Whenever IBM comes out
- >>with a new beta, then this newsgroup will be busy reporting bugs. But
- >>as the beta improves, posts in this newsgroup will shrink. Then people
- >>can propose new OS/2 features for future betas. In other words, OS/2
- >>system programmers or designers can read this newsgroup to read either
- >>about beta bugs or suggestions for new features, depending on the
- >>progress of a given beta OS/2.
-
- >How about comp.os.os2.bugs? comp.os.os2.suggestions could be considered
- >useless since 1) a lot, if not all, of the material conceivably could also
- >be posted to comp.os.os2.misc and 2) it would probably degenerate into
- >another advocacy group ("Tom: I would like 'A' to be included with OS/2",
- >"Dick: get real! 'A' is so large that it would take 21 disks for it
- >alone!", "Harry: *you* get real! 'A' is worth the extra space.", etc.).
-
- Why not just a mailaddress to which all such suggestions could be
- mailed? Something like suggestions@os2.ibm.com. That way we would all
- know where to send our feature requests.
-
- /johan
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