🚀 go-pugleaf

This is just a short note to welcome you to the new MacApp3 newsgroup.

This newsgroup should only be used for MacApp (version 3.0) discussions.
It will be gatewayed to a similar (very active) mailing list on AppleLink
which has a similarly narrow focus.  If you wish to discuss other object-
oriented programming paridigms for the Macintosh then the right place to
do this is in the comp.sys.mac.oop.misc newsgroup.  If traffic warrants
then other subgroups can be created.  But that's up to you readers.

Thanks to John Werner (at Berkeley) for organizing this.

I have the gateway software compiled, tested, and ready to run.  There is 
already an active discussion on AppleLink with over 300 developers (both
inside and outside of Apple).

Unfortunately, the Call-For-Votes ended at the same time as a new person
took over our (apple's) main news feed.  This is good news, but it does
mean that turning on the MacApp3 newsfeed is delayed.  Anyway, I've given
them a list of commands to install so it should happen any day now.

The plan is to first gateway all traffic from the AppleLink mailing list
Macapp3tech$ to Usenet.  There is a potential problem with MessageIDs that
come out of AppleLink which I had to program around.   I would like to
watch this for a couple of days (with real traffic) before I turn on the
gateway in the other direction (Usenet to AppleLink).  

If I screw up then there is a chance that some messages from Usenet will go 
to AppleLink and then get dumped back into the newsgroup (duplicate messages).

You should be seeing lots of bits any day now....I'm sorry for the delay.

Happy MacApping....


						Malcolm Slaney
						Apple ATG Perception Group
						Part-time MacApp-er