craig@unicus.UUCP (Craig D. Hubley) (07/22/87)
As Alison Lee and Peter Rowley have stated, comp.cog-eng is moving away from its mandate in human factors. In the meantime, a number of discussions have erupted elsewhere that are relevant to human factors and interfaces, that never appeared to comp.cog-eng readers at all. A lengthy discussion of the merits of graphical interfaces, comparing many different packages, appeared not long ago in comp.windows.misc, and was cross-posted to several comp.sys and comp.windows groups. After several interesting exchanges of opinion, and many many postings, someone suggested that comp.cog-eng was the appropriate place for the discussion. No one seemed to follow up on that. I think it's the name. "cog-eng" does not sound like a human factors group. I agree with Alison: comp.hci or comp.chi are fine, as is comp.ui, but it would be nice to avoid the issue of the "c" and call it comp.hi. The only disadvantage of this might be that novice net folks would keep dropping "Hello there" messages into the group. But then maybe we'd get 'em early... Craig Hubley, Unicus Corporation, Toronto, Ont. craig@Unicus.COM (Internet) {seismo!mnetor, utzoo!utcsri}!unicus!craig (dumb uucp) mnetor!unicus!craig@seismo.css.gov (dumb arpa)