[comp.os.msdos.apps] Spreadsheet newsgroup

av@kielo.uta.fi (Arto V. Viitanen) (02/05/91)

>>>>> On 4 Feb 91 01:58:09 GMT, raymond@math.berkeley.edu (Raymond Chen) said:

Raymond> In article <1809@netmbx.UUCP>, acunger@netmbx (Arnie Unger) writes:
>stone@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Glenn Stone) writes:
>>I can't seem to find a forum on the net for discussing spreadsheets,...
>I agree that there should be a formal newsgroup for spreadsheets.  

Raymond> Why not just use comp.os.msdos.apps?  That's what it was created
Raymond> for...  Traffic in it is pretty much nonexistent, so there doesn't
Raymond> seem to be any real impetus to subdivide apps into apps.spreadsheet,
Raymond> apps.wordproc, apps.database etc.

That's not a good analog: there are newsgroups comp.databases and comp.text,
which both have discussion (also) on PC products.

Raymond> Your friendly FAQ maintaner,  --rjc

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