[comp.windows.x] comp.windows.x.questions?

dob@tws1.Berkeley.EDU (David L. Brooks) (06/27/90)

In article <990002@hpnmdla.HP.COM>, roger@hpnmdla.HP.COM (Roger
Petersen) writes:
|>In comp.windows.x, cwilson@NISC.SRI.COM (Chan Wilson) writes:
|>
|>> My question is, what is the interest level in creating a new newsgroup, 
|>> comp.windows.x.questions, which would be similar to comp.unix.questions?
|>
|>Not a bad idea.  Things are getting pretty crowded in here.
|>
|>How about naming it:
|>
|>		comp.windows.x.programming
|>
|>comp.windows.x.questions sounds like a place that beginning X users go
|>to ask how to configure their .Xdefaults and window manager files.
|>
|>comp.windows.x.programming sounds like a place to discuss programming 
|>in X, and ask how-to programming questions.
|>
|>Roger Petersen
|>
|>[We did this internally about 6 months ago.  hp.windows was getting
|>too busy, so we created hp.windows.programming.  Works great.]

I think this an excellent idea.
                     
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