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Re: Splitting the Group

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From: Secret Mud
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 12:41
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From: roarf@stud.cs.uit.no (Roar Foshaug)
>In article <714144149.21073@zooid.guild.org>, ron@zooid.guild.org (Secret Mud) writes:
>|> If going to the trouble of creating a group for x86/MSDOS/VGA nitty-gritty
>|> games programmers, why not go whole-hog?  Why limit it to VGA?
>|> 
>|> How about a news group for VGA, Sound Blasters, reading joystick ports, and
>|> all the other low level things required to write a game for clones?  I find
>|> that that the constant fanning out of groups frequently dilutes the
>|> information by making it necessary to subscribe to a number of groups to catch
>|> the tidbits as they float past.
>|> 
>|>  - Ron Sharp.
>
>
>   alt.msdos.programmer ?

Then all the gaming messages with be buried in the general msdos traffic.  And
surges in the gaming traffic will probably generate requests to start another
group...
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From: ron@zooid.guild.org (Secret Mud)
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Subject: Re: Splitting the Group
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