Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site uwmacc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!think!harvard!seismo!uwvax!uwmacc!rick From: rick@uwmacc.UUCP (the absurdist) Newsgroups: net.news.group Subject: Re: New group proposal: net.micro.{flame,compet,bench,argue,...} Message-ID: <1245@uwmacc.UUCP> Date: Thu, 27-Jun-85 10:42:04 EDT Article-I.D.: uwmacc.1245 Posted: Thu Jun 27 10:42:04 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 29-Jun-85 00:27:18 EDT References: <963@bnl44.UUCP <337@gatech.CSNET> <2884@nsc.UUCP> Reply-To: rick@uwmacc.UUCP (Rick Keir) Distribution: net Organization: UWisconsin-Madison Academic Comp Center Lines: 23 In article <337@gatech.CSNET> spaf@gatech.UUCP (Gene Spafford) writes: >> A new group is really needed to contain the >>debates over the merits and flaws of various microcomputer CPUs. > >Why can't "net.arch" or "net.micro" be used for this? Those groups >would seem to be appropriate to what you are discussing.... "contain the debates" is perhaps ambiguous --- what a number of people would like to do is to MOVE the debates from their current setting. It is ambiguous (now) as to where these messages go, since they could be plausibly in net.micro and net.arch both; then you can add in any micro subgroup that might also be referenced, like .pc and .mac and .68k if its an 8088 vs. 68000 debate; then cross-referencing .atari because of Tramiel's new machine.... The hope is that the net.micro and net.arch discussions will be easier to keep up on for those of us who aren't interested in benchmarking. -- "Against stupidity, the gods themselves struggle in vain." Rick Keir -- MicroComputer Information Center, MACC 1210 West Dayton St/U Wisconsin Madison/Mad WI 53706 {allegra, ihnp4, seismo}!uwvax!uwmacc!rick