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- From: erh0362@tesla.njit.edu (Elliotte Rusty Harold)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
- Subject: Re: Hey how about a new group for UTILITIES ???????
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.093923.1@tesla.njit.edu>
- Date: 23 Jan 93 14:39:23 GMT
- References: <wondertr.727642482@sfu.ca> <C19E6u.Bw9@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
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- In article <C19E6u.Bw9@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>, hades@coos.dartmouth.edu (Brian Hughes) writes:
- > wondertr@fraser.sfu.ca (wondertree learning center) writes:
- >
- >>Hey I just thought that it might be a good idea to make a new NewsGroup
- >>for Mac Utilities....
- >
- >>We could call it comp.sys.mac.util
- >
- > Is there something new in the water, or what? Everytime I turn
- > around someone is proposing a new newsgroup. While the addition of a
- > newsgroup to talk about utilities would be helpful, I really don't see
- > an efficient way to word a charter to distinguish it from c.s.m.apps.
- > Isn't Microsoft Word a utility?
-
- The key difference is that Word is something you buy your Macintosh to run,
- a utility is something you buy to make your Macintosh run better. Word is a
- production application. MacTools or ATM are just things that help Word run
- better. It's the difference between going to the grocery store in your
- car and going to the gas station. If you didn't own a car you'd still go to
- the grocery store, just not as easily as with the car. If you didn't have Word
- you'd still write, just not as easily. Only the first kind of utility (i.e
- Word) belongs in comp.sys.mac.apps. The second kind belongs in
- comp.sys.mac.misc. This will be made more explicit in the next version of the
- FAQ.
-
- Elliotte Rusty Harold Department of Mathematics
- elharo@shiva.njit.edu New Jersey Institute of Technology
- erh0362@tesla.njit.edu Newark NJ 07102
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