chk@dciem.dciem.dnd.ca (C. Harald Koch) (05/29/89)
In article <1989May27.022649.7146@eci386.uucp> woods@eci386.UUCP (Greg Woods) writes: >The entire purpose of this newsgroup is to discuss matters relating to >/usr/group/cdn (note the name). We who are directly involved do use e-mail >heavily, but some of the discussion is quite relevant to everyone else, and >we appreciate everyone's input. In fact, this newsgroup is gated through >the unix-unanimous mailing list (guess where that name comes from). In my understanding, the unix-unanimous mailing list was started to discuss unix issues because /usr/group/cdn wasn't. I am fuzzy on the original history, so I am not sure whether the mailing-list or the UU meetings came first. However, this I do know: can.usrgroup was created to carry the UU mailing list traffic to the net, because it was felt that the mailing list was not reaching enough of the people who would be interested in UU. It was not created to discuss /usr/group/cdn. Nevertheless, the two groups are somewhat inter-related, and I admit there will be inevitable spill-over. Also, evolution being what it is... -- Grandpa Charnock's Law: | C. Harald Koch NTT Systems, Inc., Toronto, Ontario You never really learn | chk@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (long-term address) to swear until you learn | chk@zorac.dciem.dnd.ca (my current job) to drive. | chk@chkent.UUCP (my AMIGA at home)
woods@eci386.uucp (Greg A. Woods) (05/31/89)
I leave the meat what I could have said in this discussion to Peter Renzland, who in is rebuttal to himself explained many of the other issues VERY well. In article <1769@dciem.dciem.dnd.ca> chk@dretor.dciem.dnd.ca (C. Harald Koch) writes: > In my understanding, the unix-unanimous mailing list was started to discuss > unix issues because /usr/group/cdn wasn't. I am fuzzy on the original > history, so I am not sure whether the mailing-list or the UU meetings came > first. The UU mailing list was started by Paul Maclauchlan to give the attendee's of UU meetings yet another forum, and as a vehicle to announce the regular meetings to those people who were interested. > However, this I do know: can.usrgroup was created to carry the UU mailing > list traffic to the net, because it was felt that the mailing list was not > reaching enough of the people who would be interested in UU. It was not > created to discuss /usr/group/cdn. Nevertheless, the two groups are somewhat > inter-related, and I admit there will be inevitable spill-over. Also, > evolution being what it is... Here I may be stepping on toes, but anyway.... Can.usrgroup was created by Dave Mason for at least two reasons. One was to gateway the UU mailing list to Usenet sites throughout Canada, and the other was to create a more identifiable forum for discussion about issues in the Unix community in Canada. It was an alternative to using the more confusing feature of country wide distribution in comp.org.usrgroup. The important feature was to get more information about activities in the Unix community of Toronto out into the Unix community of Canada and thereby invite more participation on a National scale. Unix Unanimous and /usr/group/cdn, from your point of view, may be treated as two forums of one group. Unix Unanimous is part of /usr/group/cdn, and neither excludes non-members. Stuff in the UU mailing list IS about /usr/group/cdn. Oddly enough the relationship is more one-way, but that's another story. -- Greg A. Woods woods@{{utgpu,eci386,ontmoh,tmsoft}.UUCP,gpu.utcs.UToronto.CA,utorgpu.BITNET} +1-416-443-1734 [h] +1-416-595-5425 [w] Toronto, Ontario CANADA