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- From: twbrown@PE-Nelson.COM (Tom W. Brown)
- Newsgroups: comp.windows.misc
- Subject: Re: Hey, this is windows.misc, not mswindows....
- Message-ID: <691@lax.lax.pe-nelson.com>
- Date: 10 Nov 92 23:15:55 GMT
- References: <1992Nov6.121708.13245@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> <camh.721270771@balrog> <1992Nov9.153714.13488@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au>
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- In article <1992Nov9.153714.13488@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au>, cosham@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Mark Cosham) writes:
- |> In <camh.721270771@balrog> camh@nms.otca.oz.au (Cameron Hutchison) writes:
- |>
- |> >cosham@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Mark Cosham) writes:
- |> >> I'm getting a trifle annoyed with all the MS-WINDOWS postings to
- |> >>this group. There are specific groups setup for MS-WINDOWS and those
- |> >>postings should not be sent to this group.
- |>
- |> >This is something that is going to keep happening. The only way to
- |> >fix it would be to rename it to comp.gui.misc (or something equally
- |> >appropriate, just anything without "windows" in it).
- |>
- |> >Is it worthwhile doing this? Too much hassle to change the whole
- |> >comp.windows... hierarchy? Maybe someone wants to start the ball
- |> >rolling, as I have no idea what needs to be done to change the name.
- |>
- |> I quite agree with this. I am a MS-WINDOWS user myself, but I like to
- |> keep up with what's happening with other GUIs.
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- There was a RFD for a comp.windows reorganization awhile ago (along the
- lines of comp.gui). I posted a reply on news.groups in favor of this, but
- haven't seen much else. Anyone know the status of this discussion?
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