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In article <C19E6u.Bw9@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>, hades@coos.dartmouth.edu (Brian Hughes) writes:
> wondertr@fraser.sfu.ca (wondertree learning center) writes:
> 
>>Hey I just thought that it might be a good idea to make a new NewsGroup
>>for Mac Utilities....
> 
>>We could call it comp.sys.mac.util
> 
>     Is there something new in the water, or what? Everytime I turn
> around someone is proposing a new newsgroup. While the addition of a
> newsgroup to talk about utilities would be helpful, I really don't see
> an efficient way to word a charter to distinguish it from c.s.m.apps.
> Isn't Microsoft Word a utility?

    The key difference is that Word is something you buy your Macintosh to run, 
a utility is something you buy to make your Macintosh run better.  Word is a 
production application.  MacTools or ATM are just things that help Word run 
better.  It's the difference between going to the grocery store in your 
car and going to the gas station.  If you didn't own a car you'd still go to 
the grocery store, just not as easily as with the car.  If you didn't have Word 
you'd still write, just not as easily.  Only the first kind of utility (i.e 
Word) belongs in comp.sys.mac.apps.  The second kind belongs in 
comp.sys.mac.misc.  This will be made more explicit in the next version of the 
FAQ.

Elliotte Rusty Harold		Department of Mathematics
elharo@shiva.njit.edu		New Jersey Institute of Technology
erh0362@tesla.njit.edu		Newark NJ 07102