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Re: Comp.windows.reog (Re: What in the world happened to this group?)

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From: peter da silva
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 1992 18:42
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In article <1992Sep30.231447.23413@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> gl8f@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl) writes:
> In article <id.DANT.887@ferranti.com> peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva) writes:
> >I think it's time for a grand reorganization, here's my proposal:

> A wee bit of overkill.

Well, nothing less has worked, long term.

> My humble opinion, as the self-apointed savior,
> (retired) of comp.windows.misc, is that there is so little misc
> traffic about windowing systems that that group has little purpose. I
> was able to redirect most of the confused Microsoft Windows users to
> the correct group by sending them email, but no appropriate discussion
> appeared on comp.windows.misc.

Looked like there was quite a bit of discussion. Oh, not at the level of
comp.lang.misc (AKA comp.lang.flame.c), but appropriate for a misc group
in a properly divided hierarchy.
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From: peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva)
Subject: Re: Comp.windows.reog (Re: What in the world happened to this group?)
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References: <1992Sep26.045430.13552@cas.org> <id.DANT.887@ferranti.com> <1992Sep30.231447.23413@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
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