xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) (10/06/90)
Note and respect the followup-to line; we don't need the rest of the
discussion crossposted, this is just to gather the attention of others
who might want to participate in the discussion, but keep away from the
volume of comp.sys.amiga normally, and might miss the start of things.
I only let myself get dragged into these things because I'm bored and
I can't keep up with comp.sys.amiga and read any of the rest of the
net as well. Here's my long promised start on the politics of a new
comp.sys.amiga heirarchy.
Thanks to those who have already emailed suggestions. To get the ball
rolling, from previous discussions plus new email:
Very early cut at a new group breakdown; probably too many, probably
overlapped, probably left your favorite out. EMAIL suggestions so I'm
sure to keep them; post discussions as well, of course. The creation of
moderated groups posits the existance of volunteers to moderate them. da
Silva? This is your big chance to shine.
announce -- moderated: FF-disks, digestified for-sale notes, meetings,
new products, shareware releases, uploads to archives, etc.
[I really want this one; I've missed two meetings (BADGE and
NewTek's Toaster kickoff) in the last four weeks because I
can't keep up with the present group, and saw the
announcements only after the meetings.]
reviews -- moderated, archived: where to put your formally written up
impressions of new stuff: hardware and soft- free, share,
or commercial -ware.
software -- commercial and other, other than games, to focus the
discussion; also one of two followup-to groups for the
reviews group discussions.
hardware -- as is, but pull review stuff to reviews, so this is more
a where to buy, and chat group; also the other followup-to
discussion group for reviews.
tech -- Discussing the interface between the programmer and the
delivered software (and possibly other tool level stuff
in common use, SKsh, Wshell, etc.)
games -- talking about buying and playing games; games reviews stay
here, or go to reviews for archiving?
education -- how to use the Amiga in a teaching environment.
graphics -- graphics hacks, algorithims and serious stuff for the amiga.
video -- for the person with a plan, a lot of time, and a VCR.
music -- for the MIDI crowd and the composers among us.
multimedia -- how to get it all going together: we need more slots!
verbal -- talking about spoken input and output
handicapped -- special focus on Amiga and the handicapped
productivity -- the Amiga as a tool to get other work done: CAD, DBMS,
WP, DTP, production video, Accounts Receivable, etc.
help -- I can't make xxx work with yyy; can someone tell me how?
futures -- trying to help Commodore plan the future (also nags and
rants, of course!)
misc -- I'm too lazy to figure out where to post this, so I'll
just put it here. ;-) The "c.s.a.talk" group.
unix -- sure to be needed very soon.
services -- things done for and by Amiga owners.
vendors -- praise and horror stories.
The goal being to eventually turn comp.sys.amiga into a node rather than a
group. I have no plan to touch comp.{sources,binaries}.amiga.
When we've chewed on this a bit, if there is some consensus to do it at all,
I'll put up a Call For Discussion on news.announce.newgroups and news.groups
to get things going formally, but I'd like to talk about it within the Amiga
groups for a while first to hammer out the worst bobbles without the help of
the whole net.
My own plan, if I can restrain myself, is to advocate nothing, but to try
to keep a current summary of the proposed breakdown available unexpired
by weekly(?) postings as consensus occurs/fails.
Kent, the man from xanth.
<xanthian@Zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> <xanthian@well.sf.ca.us>
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And they're off!