mason@tmsoft.uucp (Dave Mason) (10/20/88)
As Secretary & Director in charge of national affairs of /usr/group/cdn I would like to propose the creation of a news group called can.usrgroup. At the most recent meeting of Unix Unanimous, the local Toronto technical user's meeting which is sponsored by /usr/group/cdn, it was suggested that the current unix-unanimous mailing list (ably run by Paul Maclauchlan <paul@moore.UUCP>) would be useful to more people if it was gatewayed to a newgroup. As several people on that mailing list do not receive news, the mailing list would remain and the gateway would be bidirectional which is considerably simplified if it is a separate news group (rather than dumping the articles into (say) can.general). The Board of Directors of /usr/group/cdn is most interested in promoting the use & image of Unix throughout the country and I, as Director responsible for National Affairs feel that one step in that direction would be if all (affiliated or not) unix groups across the country had available (and used) a forum to describe what they are doing. This would of course include meeting announcements, and I'm sure a lot of us would find reports of those meetings useful as well. The only remaining point that comes to mind is: 'Why not use comp.org.usrgroup with a Canadian distribution?' to which my response is that sometimes people would forget the distribution and 'our affairs' would leak across the border. (I had a political comment here but I think the resulting flamage would divert attention from the proposal at hand.:-) I propose to create this group in a week or so unless there is violent (or reasoned :-) opposition. Feel free to discuss this in this group, but if you want to tally a vote (for whatever reason) send me mail. Thank you for your time & patience. ../Dave Mason P.S. If you have other ideas about how to raise the national profile of Unix and/or /usr/group/cdn, or ideas on how /usr/group/cdn could help the Unix community, please feel free to mail me or: Peter Renzland <peter@ontmoh>: Director - Technical Programs Dan Tomlinson <dan@compus> : Director - Member Services, Operations & Finance