Re: New comp.sys.apple2 groups!

[taob@r-node.hub.org (Brian Tao)]

In article <C8CH28.K19@utstat.toronto.edu>, Philip McDunnough writes...
> 
> Congratulations on all the hard work, even though I was and still am
> opposed to the splinter effect these will cause.

    Thanks, Philip.  I see people are cross-posting between csa2 and the
new subgroups which is fine for about the first month.  That will give
people a chance to see what goes on in the other groups and ease the
transition.  Imagine what would have happened if csa2 was renamed
comp.sys.apple2.misc!

> I've worked where I am for 16 long years. I'm what you would call
> "senior" and I can't get them. There is limited disk space, limited
> time, limited everything except for excuses from Unix types.

    Your sysadmin and my sysadmin at Scarborough must be the same
person.  :(  We've been getting all sorts of empty and useless
newsgroups here recently, but nothing from csa2.* yet.

> I'm still trying to get the binary  newsgroup and you've just come out
> with 4 more! Perhaps by the time I retire I'll manage to get one of
> them.

    R-Node and ZOOiD are merging to form Internex Online (io.org) in
less than a week.  R-Node is already carrying the new groups and they
will most certainly be carried over to the new service.  I personally
think Internex will give me more value for my dollar than CRS (although
I will still watch the Apple II conference, but from a free BBS).  You
can get news, e-mail and IRC access for free, but only 30 minutes per
day (i.e., use an offline reader).  I think io.org will be the most
significant Toronto public-access UNIX development in years.  The
Freenet won't be going online for at least another year or two, and it
won't provide as good access as Internex.
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