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erh0362@tesla.njit.edu (Elliotte Rusty Harold) writes:

>    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.

    I know the difference between a productivity application and a
utility application, but the fact remains that both of them are
applications. Now, if the person wanted to create comp.sys.mac.app.util
it would at least have a better name. But I don't see that the level of
traffic in this group is so overwhelming that people can't find the
discussions they want. Besides, think of the cross posting everytime a
conflict is found between an "app" and a "util." It would be a
nightmare.

>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.

    This is just wrong. All application discussion belongs in .apps.
That is why it is called .apps. There is nothing in the group's charter
that prohibits discussion of things like Stuffic, or Norton Utilties, or
any of the other popular utilities on the market. Applications and
utilties are too closely tied together to effectively separate the
discussions. As for .misc, it is there for topics that aren't
necessarily covered by one of the existing groups and for those
discussion that would be crossposted across a larger number of the
groups (or something like this, I haven't seen the charter for the group
in a couple of years so it's a little fuzzy).

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