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In <1993Jan23.093923.1@tesla.njit.edu> erh0362@tesla.njit.edu (Elliotte Rusty Harold) writes:

>In article <C19E6u.Bw9@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>, hades@coos.dartmouth.edu (Brian Hughes) writes:
>> wondertr@fraser.sfu.ca (wondertree learning center) writes:
>> 
[silly idea deleted]
>> 
>>     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 

So, what is something like DiskFit Pro?  How 'bout CatMac?  Or a program
that sets the clock based on a time server?
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