jack@cbrown.claremont.edu (12/13/90)
Hi. For those people keeping track I finally got my NeXTstation. It was ordered in October so the shipping time is a little better than a Mac Classic. The box really cooks (faster than the VAXStation I'm writing this on). It's about half way up (our Network manager is at DECUS). So I am hoping to bring it up to speed by sometime next week. On a different note I wanted to chip in my $0.02 on comp.sys.next and RTF. There are a lot of reasons why I think that a comp.sys.next.rtf is not viable AT-THIS-TIME. Briefly, it has to do with current network bandwidth, disk space at many newsites, and readablity by non-next users (I will be more than happy to expand on this via E-Mail --- I think that most of the issues have been touched upon in previous postings). But I think the idea is really good. Multi-media E-mail will become a buzz word in the 90's (so will Electronic Document Interchange --- trust me, they're different). And it would be neat to have NeXT be the first system to lead this revolution. So this is my idea, why not setup a comp.sys.next.rtf mailing list and have a gateway that interchanges messages between comp.sys.next and the mailing list? The code translating from RTF to ASCII and ASCII to RTF would not be too difficult. Of course any site that had more than one NeXT, or more than one person reading the mailing list --- would be foolish not to pipe the mailing back into a local comp.sys.next.rtf hence making a newsreader that could read RTF relatively valuable. So how about it? Any volunteers? I reckon that you would probably only need 20-40 megs of diskspace free, depending on how far back that you wanted to archive. Any listserv's (or other automated mailing list programs) written for the NeXT? Comments? Should we just bypass this idea and go straight to comp.sys.next.rtf? And take this discussion news.groups, trail.newgroups and news.announce.newgroups? ---Jack Jack Stewart Jack@Hmcvax (Bitnet) User Support Coordinator, jack@hmcvax.claremont.edu (Internet) Harvey Mudd College, jack@134.173.4.32 (also Internet) Claremont, Ca. 91711 714-621-8006