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Article #439Re: Hey, this is windows.misc, not mswindows....
From: Tom W. Brown
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 23:15
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 23:15
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In article <1992Nov9.153714.13488@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au>, cosham@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Mark Cosham) writes: |> In <camh.721270771@balrog> camh@nms.otca.oz.au (Cameron Hutchison) writes: |> |> >cosham@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Mark Cosham) writes: |> >> I'm getting a trifle annoyed with all the MS-WINDOWS postings to |> >>this group. There are specific groups setup for MS-WINDOWS and those |> >>postings should not be sent to this group. |> |> >This is something that is going to keep happening. The only way to |> >fix it would be to rename it to comp.gui.misc (or something equally |> >appropriate, just anything without "windows" in it). |> |> >Is it worthwhile doing this? Too much hassle to change the whole |> >comp.windows... hierarchy? Maybe someone wants to start the ball |> >rolling, as I have no idea what needs to be done to change the name. |> |> I quite agree with this. I am a MS-WINDOWS user myself, but I like to |> keep up with what's happening with other GUIs. There was a RFD for a comp.windows reorganization awhile ago (along the lines of comp.gui). I posted a reply on news.groups in favor of this, but haven't seen much else. Anyone know the status of this discussion? ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tom Brown | "'ow d'you know 'e's a king? PE Nelson Systems | 'cause 'e 'asn't got shit all over 'im!" twbrown@pe-nelson.com | Monty Python and the Holy Grail ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!lax.pe-nelson.com!lax!twbrown From: twbrown@PE-Nelson.COM (Tom W. Brown) Newsgroups: comp.windows.misc Subject: Re: Hey, this is windows.misc, not mswindows.... Message-ID: <691@lax.lax.pe-nelson.com> Date: 10 Nov 92 23:15:55 GMT References: <1992Nov6.121708.13245@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> <camh.721270771@balrog> <1992Nov9.153714.13488@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> Sender: news@lax.pe-nelson.com Organization: PE-Nelson Lines: 29