mguyott@mirror.TMC.COM (Marc Guyott) (09/26/88)
It has been 2 weeks since I posted the "call for discussion" for the new
newsgroup comp.windows.ms. There was a good deal of activity during the
first week of the discussion period, I will list examples of the most
popular responses that I received at the end of this posting, but the
discussions seems to have dropped off in the last week. This indicates
to me that it is time to call for votes. However, before I make an
official call for votes I want to remind people of a couple of things.
I have already received votes from many people (all for the creation of the
newsgroup). However, THESE VOTES DO NOT COUNT! Votes can not be counted
unless they are emailed to the address given in the call for votes AFTER
the call for votes has been posted. I am asking all of the people who have
already sent me votes to please resend your vote to the address posted
in the call for votes after the call for votes appears in news.groups.
The next thing I wanted to say is that the call for votes will ONLY APPEAR
IN NEWS.GROUPS so please watch this news group as the call for votes should
appear very shortly after this announcement.
The last thing I wanted to say is that in order for this attempt to create
comp.windows.ms to succeed, I must receive 100 YES votes more than the number
of NO votes that I receive. This is a significant number of votes so if you
have the least bit of interest in seeing this news group created please vote.
Here is a summary of some of the more popular opinions I received during the
discussion period for comp.windows.ms.
From: blair@enint.Wichita.NCR.COM (Brian Lair)
Some have expressed a desire for a more generic "comp.windows.ibm"
newsgroup (to include GEM and OS/2), but I disagree. That seems to be the
charter of comp.windows.misc, and the whole idea of creating this new group
is to further break down the discussions into more specific subject areas.
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From: cybvax0!uunet!netxcom!jallen (John Allen)
I stopped reading windows.misc because of the high X/ms ratio.
I like X, but hey, I *use* MS.
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From: barnett@vdsvax.steinmetz.ge.com (Bruce G. Barnett)
>comp.windows.ibm.pc
Remember that one company has announced NeWS for OS/2.
Maybe comp.windows.ms is a better choice.
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From: pcb@usl.usl.edu (P.C. Bahrs)
I think that the news group comp.windows.ms is most appropriate. If
enough interest occurs then further groups such as comp.windows.os2
and comp.windows.gem should be added.
From: shel@cfi.COM (shel)
I fully agree that a comp.windows.ms would be a good idea. With IBM's
move to pm in the future there are more and more of us trying to make
some sense out of MS Windows and a discussion group would be of
great value
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Sheldon Laube, The Consumer Financial Institute, Waltham, MA 617-899-6500
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From: Nicholas Solntseff <ns@maccs>
At the expense of some duplication (especially of more generic issues common
to all small-workstation-based systems -- Mac, GEM, MS Windows), I favour
separating groups into ... ms , ... . mac , ... gem, etc.
Nick Solntseff (416) 525-9140 xtn 3443.
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