🚀 go-pugleaf

 I hope that those of you who have all IBM hardware specific keywords in you
kill file will read this post too.

  I myself an an IBM PC programmer and have found the posts about VGA and other
IBM specific stuff VERY helpful in my own programming.  However there is one
fact that remains...... This is not the group for those kinds of postings.
Over the past couple of years that I have kept up with this board, the majority
of the IBM specific posts that are inappropriately on this board revolve around
the EGA/VGA cards as there is no other place on the net where these questions
could be delt with fairly (comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware has WAY too much traffic
and no other group is equiped to deal with this either).  IBM soundcards have
their own groups (comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard and alt.sb.programmer I think),
so the VGA card should also be handled this way.

  Therefore I am looking into the creation of alt.vga.programmer or perhaps
comp.sys.ibm.pc.vga.  Any help on how to go about creating a group would be
helpful, and I have already requested help on news.groups for the same subject.

I think that a group of this type would free r.g.p from the inappropriate IBM
posts, as well as the flaming noise that these posts generate.  When and if
a call for voting on this group comes about, I would also encourage non-IBM
readers to vote yes for its creation to get rid of those posts you all love to
hate.

Later,
Mike Duffy (mduffy@aludra.usc.edu)