Re: Proposed group addition

[Roy Miller <millers@inebraska.com>]

Brian Hyer wrote:

> 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'm not sure, but it's possible. I don't think a Lisa group, or a /// group by
themselves could do it, but a "legacy" group could. I don't want to see the a2
groups die, but I read more than the a2 groups now.

I'm sure that there are people like me who own various Macs (128, 512, Plus,
SE, Classic, Classic II, LC II [with //e card], and some 68040 machine as well
as this Power Computing machine I'm currently using) and some who, like me,
might own a ///, Lisa, or even Newton or eMate, as well as a II. I do think
that the 68K Macs could/should be included, Apple has already declared OS 8
dead, and 68040 machines can only go up to OS 8.1, so those 5-6 year old
machines are now scheduled for the landfill too.

>
>
> 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.

>
>
> 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.

I like legacy.

>
>
> 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>

I like the idea of a moderator, if for no other reason that to delete the spam
messages. But I don't like too much censorship. A very little goes a long way.

Roy

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>
> 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