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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
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Posted: Thu Jun 27 10:42:04 1985
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References: <963@bnl44.UUCP <337@gatech.CSNET> <2884@nsc.UUCP>
Reply-To: rick@uwmacc.UUCP (Rick Keir)
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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
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