unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (The Unknown User) (02/26/91)
In article <1991Feb26.040036.22850@en.ecn.purdue.edu> platkus@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Shawn W Platkus) writes: >From what I've seen, Its begin used for "For Sale" posts. Maybe everyone >can start an Apple For Sale group on it and get them outta here!? Sounds like a good idea, seriously! I am pretty sure I've seen other for sale newsgroups intended for a specific brand of computer... (I'm all for the "if other computers can have so many specific newsgroups, we should have them" idea... So it seems the "comp.sys.iigs.unix" [whatever] should be reinstated for real, as well as "comp.sys.iigs.uucp" and "comp.sys.iigs.uucp.bugfixes" {or whatever, like I've seen in Amiga groups}.. Note I'm kidding about the uucp ones FOR NOW, until whoever gets UUCP running fer real) -- /Apple II(GS) Forever! unknown@ucscb.ucsc.edu MAIL ME FOR INFO ABOUT CHEAP CDs\ \WRITE TO ORIGIN ABOUT ULTIMA VI //e and IIGS! Mail me for addresses, & info. /
knauer@cs.uiuc.edu (Rob Knauerhase) (02/27/91)
In <12811@darkstar.ucsc.edu> unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (The Unknown User) writes: >In article <1991Feb26.040036.22850@en.ecn.purdue.edu> platkus@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Shawn W Platkus) writes: >>From what I've seen, Its begin used for "For Sale" posts. Maybe everyone >>can start an Apple For Sale group on it and get them outta here!? > Sounds like a good idea, seriously! I am pretty sure I've seen >other for sale newsgroups intended for a specific brand of computer... From our newsserver, I only find misc.forsale.computers and a local uiuc.classifieds.computer. I hope no other platforms have their own forsale groups. Misc.forsale.computers was created to get forsale postings out of technical groups, not to encourage forsale postings [NOTE this does NOT convey my personal position on forsale posts in c.s.a2; I'm in favor of them]; having a brand-specific forsale group would be pointless in that (1) it's not that big a share of c.s.a2 traffic (or any other group's traffic) and (2) for sale postings would just be crossposted there and to c.s.a2 anyway, so why bother with a separate group? >(I'm all for the "if other computers can have so many specific newsgroups, >we should have them" idea... So it seems the "comp.sys.iigs.unix" [whatever] >should be reinstated for real, as well as "comp.sys.iigs.uucp" and >"comp.sys.iigs.uucp.bugfixes" {or whatever, like I've seen in Amiga groups}.. >Note I'm kidding about the uucp ones FOR NOW, until whoever gets UUCP >running fer real) While I agree in spirit, there really is no point in creating a zillion other groups that would only get a post or two a week (or less, or worse yet, be crossposted to comp.sys.apple2 anyway). I hardly think the general public judges a platform by the number of Usenet groups devoted to it. :-) The UUCP efforts, the Unix (more likely unix shell utility) efforts, and the MMU/fast 65186 efforts are all important, but not enough so to warrant their own newsgroups. What's wrong with following a thread in c.s.a2? Rob -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Robert C. Knauerhase "Since the day the Apple III (RIP) was introduced U of Ill @ Urbana-Champaign in 1980, the 'experts' have been saying the Apple Dept. of Computer Science II is a dead machine. If the Apple III couldn't knauer@cs.uiuc.edu kill it, the Lisa (RIP) or the PC Jr. (RIP) or the rck@ces.cwru.edu 128K Mac (RIP) would. Some people never learn." knauer@scivax.lerc.nasa.gov -- Tom Weishaar