rdr@mdavcr.UUCP (Randolph Roesler) (12/08/89)
[sorry Canada - should have dist = world first time around] [Sorry about skipping "keywords"] I have noticed that Comp.sys.atari.st, probably like most sys newsgroups, serves as a multi-purpose forum. A. Discussion of Atari St Past, Present, and Future. B. Off the cuff advice on hardware/software/etc. C. Pearls of wisdom which should be saved for all time. D. Etc. I would like to purpose that we (the readers of Comp.sys.atari.st) divid the newsgroup up into an unmoderated discuss group and a moderated advice group (with, maybe, and question and answer group on the side). The advice group would be intended for those pearls of wisdom, and would be archived, index, etc, for the masses and the years. Perhaps we could name the new groups Comp.sys.atari.st.d = discuss and unmoderated free forum Comp.sys.atari.st.a = advice and moderated archived, index, etc maybe Comp.sys.atari.st.h = help and unmoderated qustion and answers This not an offical call for discuss for creation and renaming of newsgroups becuase there is a few issues to be worked out. 1) Who is to moderate 2) Where can we archive 3) What are the newsgroup names to be 4) Whether this is a good idea 5) etc. I am not an expert on any facet of Atari St, but, since I am not one of those talkers (and not doers) I will volunteer to be moderator of the new newsgroup. I suggest that I am not the bestperson for this job. If you think you would do better, please volunteer. (Really, someone from Atari should do this - but they (Atari) would have to promise not to bias the newsgroup towards Atari's own add-on products). I can not archive the newsgroup. If there is enough feed make on this issue - I will put together a proper usenet proposal. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ It's not the size of your signature that Randy Roesler counts - it's how you use it! MacDonald Dettwiler & Assc. email ...!uunet!van-bc!mdavcr!rdr BC Canada 604-278-3411
ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu (L.J.Dickey) (12/12/89)
In article <696@acrux.mdavcr.UUCP> rdr@mdavcr.UUCP (Randolph Roesler) writes: > I have noticed that Comp.sys.atari.st, probably like most > sys newsgroups, serves as a multi-purpose forum and he proposes that we divide the group into several parts. I think I would like this. I am tired of sifting through the muck, and would support the sort of division he suggest. ( Of course certain "KILL" commands in "rn", like /obnoxious person/h:j / unsubscribe/:j / Vapourware/:j have been helpful in the past, but it is not everything. ) Yes, there are details to work out, but let's discuss them. -- L. J. Dickey, Faculty of Mathematics, University of Waterloo. ljdickey@water.UWaterloo.ca ljdickey@water.BITNET ljdickey@water.UUCP ..!uunet!watmath!water!ljdickey ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu