Re: Proposed group addition

["william strutts" <wrstrutts1@nospam.home.com>]

"Brian Hyer" <bmhyer@ameritech.net> wrote in message
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> OK, then. Let's have a little vote-a-thon amongst ourselves. The questions
> before the readership are as follows:
>
> 1. In your opinion only, does the current traffic on Usenet support the
> creation of a non-Macintosh, non-Apple-II newsgroup within the comp.sys.*
> hierarchy?
>
Nope.

> 2. Would you subscribe to such a group and use it? If the majority of
people
> for whom the group would be a benefit won't use such a group regularly,
it's
> a waste of resources to try and get it created. There's a lot of work
> involved in creating a high-level Usenet group.
>
If you broaden the scope of the group for cross-platform use to all
old Apple products, I would post there.

> 3. What is your proposed name for such a group? So far I've seen:
>
> comp.sys.apple.discontinued
> comp.sys.apple.legacy
> comp.sys.apple.non-macintosh (my own contribution)
>
> Like one? Hate one? Got an idea of your own? Let's hear it.
>

comp.sys.apple.vintage

That would attract vintage computer collectors to the group that
specialize in Apple products like myself.

> 4. Any comments/thoughts on the whole process? Let's hear those too.
> Constructive criticisms will be cheerfully accepted; flames will be just
as
> cheerfully tossed in the rubbish and set ablaze, while dancing on a
burning
> effigy of the potential flamer and sticking voodoo pins in it... <grin>
>
The group should be unmoderated.

> -----
>
> Since I started this, I'll finish it. To minimize traffic on Usenet,
e-mail
> your replies to bmhyer at ameritech dot net. I'll actually keep track of
> them for... let's say two weeks? Long enough to get an idea of
response?...
> and post the summary of responses on this newsgroup November 15, 2001.
>
> Brian
>
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