rchampe@hubcap.UUCP (Richard Champeaux) (11/05/87)
Before people start screaming at me, one of the computers I own is a
coco 1. (Although the computer I use most often is an Amiga)
I think a new newsgroup should be created instead of renaming this one.
I imagine that the original purpose of this newsgroup was for comments about
the 6809, not just about computers using the 6809 (especially not just one
computer, ie. the coco). If you use other newsgroups as an example, there
is a newsgroup named comp.sys.m68k which is for technical comments about
the 68000, 68020, 68030. There is also a newsgroup named comp.sys.m68k.PC
for comments about 68k based computers.
Coco owners started using this newsgroup since they didn't have their
own. Since there are so many coco messages, non-coco owners were probably
scared off.
I read this newsgroup for both info about cocos and info about the 6809
(Although there's little of the latter). The coco is not the only computer
using the 6809, renaming this newsgroup to comp.sys.coco would alienate
everyone else.
From what I've read, creating a new newsgroup is not that difficult.
Rich Champeaux
Clemson University
(Looking back at what I've written, I see that it's not exactly an example
of good writing, but I pulled an all-nighter last night and I don't feel
like fixing it.)