mesard@bbn.com (Wayne Mesard) (02/24/90)
arie@dip.eecs.umich.edu (Arie Covrigaru) writes: >I am using MACL exclusively and, like on any large Lisp >system, sometimes I have problems that are not mine. When >I programmed on the Xerox 1100 series Lisp Machines, there >was a place where I could exchange information (and still >is), public domain hacks, complain about bugs in the system >etc. Are there enough people using MACL to form such a group? I heard something about a MACL mailing list based at MIT. But I think it's been dead for a while. I'm surprised that there's not more MACL traffic in this newsgroup. I think there's likely enough interest to form a comp.lang.lisp.macl group. Every time I write a new menu item or FRED (the MACL editor) command, I have a feeling that dozens of other people have already done the same thing, and that dozens more could make use of it. It would be nice to have a clearinghouse for this kind of stuff. I don't have the time to run a newsgroup creation drive. And if and when news.groups gets wind of this idea, there will be hundreds of self-righteous net.guardians wanting to know 1) Why you want a new newsgroup when there's very little MACL traffic in existing newsgroups. 2) Why don't you put this group under comp.sys.mac? The answers are: 1) Because there are other valid reasons for creating groups besides solving a bandwidth problem in an existing group. 2) To give nay-sayers something to complain about. -- void Wayne_Mesard(); Mesard@BBN.COM Bolt Beranek and Newman, Cambridge, MA