Re: Proposed group addition

["Paul Grammens" <grammens@svn.net>]

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?
>

I'd say no. Keep in mind, all this started with one Lisa question. I have a
Newton, and when I first got it I had no problem finding lots of resources
for it. I wouldn't worry about them.   The Lisa and /// are the real
orphans, with small numbers of existing machines. The occasional questions
about them can be handled here.

> 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.
>

Yes, if someone goes to all that trouble, I'll support it. But note that it
will take traffic from here. If you feel there is too much traffic here,
then that's good. I don't feel that the traffic justifies another newsgroup.

> 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)
>

I like comp.sys.apple.non-macintosh because it's very clear.

-Paul