webber@brandx.rutgers.edu (Webber) (09/23/87)
In article <906@hao.UCAR.EDU>, woods@hao.UCAR.EDU (Greg Woods) writes: > > After all has been said (most of it several times :-), it is clear that > there is not really a consensus regarding the need for newsgroups for > different variants of UNIX. There WAS, however, a clear demand for a > Microport group, from both the proponents and detractors of Microport. > A vote was also taken on this question some time ago which also showed > strong support. There were several qualified people who volunteered to > moderate a Microport group. Therefore, such a group will be created as soon as > the volunteer moderators decide among themselves who gets the job, and it > will (of course) be moderated. Have patience, it takes time to get things > like this coordinated. Well, obviously the previous vote didn't show enough support or we would already have a group on microport. We had heard rumours that the backbone was going to quit mucking around with news group creation and set a simple 100 vote standard (see Message-ID <14614@amdahl.amdahl.com>), but I guess reports of sanity on the backbone were premature. Sometimes I wonder just which end of the backbone runs things. Let me take this time to ``clearly demand'' the following groups: comp.sys.awk comp.sys.lex comp.sys.yacc comp.sys.bc comp.sys.adb comp.sys.dbx comp.sys.sdb comp.sys.find People interested in these programs can be found on every unix machine. However, the problems specific to any one of these tend to be quite different from the problems occurring in the others. Yet it has been noted that user groups for each of these programs is often quite different (although, naturally there is some overlap). They will be moderated in rotation by backbone administrators (give them something useful to do). Besides, these are the people who think moderation is such a ``great idea.'' ---------- BOB (webber@aramis.rutgers.edu ; rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!webber)