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- From: hades@coos.dartmouth.edu (Brian Hughes)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
- Subject: Re: Hey how about a new group for UTILITIES ???????
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- Date: 25 Jan 93 17:44:25 GMT
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- erh0362@tesla.njit.edu (Elliotte Rusty Harold) writes:
-
- > 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.
-
- I know the difference between a productivity application and a
- utility application, but the fact remains that both of them are
- applications. Now, if the person wanted to create comp.sys.mac.app.util
- it would at least have a better name. But I don't see that the level of
- traffic in this group is so overwhelming that people can't find the
- discussions they want. Besides, think of the cross posting everytime a
- conflict is found between an "app" and a "util." It would be a
- nightmare.
-
- >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.
-
- This is just wrong. All application discussion belongs in .apps.
- That is why it is called .apps. There is nothing in the group's charter
- that prohibits discussion of things like Stuffic, or Norton Utilties, or
- any of the other popular utilities on the market. Applications and
- utilties are too closely tied together to effectively separate the
- discussions. As for .misc, it is there for topics that aren't
- necessarily covered by one of the existing groups and for those
- discussion that would be crossposted across a larger number of the
- groups (or something like this, I haven't seen the charter for the group
- in a couple of years so it's a little fuzzy).
-
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