From:	cjjohans AT cc DOT helsinki DOT fi (Carl J R Johansson)
Subject:	Re: This mail list in a news group
19 Jan 1997 14:34:22 -0800 :
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On Sat, 18 Jan 1997, Weiqi Gao wrote:

> dahms AT ifk20 DOT mach DOT uni-karlsruhe DOT de wrote:
> 
> >Hi, you wrote:
> >
> >:This mailling is very nice but it start to be very busy
> >:did you thing about moving on a news group ?
> 
> >I suggest waiting until out of beta, then the list could be left to
> >developers. You'll have to be very careful about the name or you'll
> >get a lot of inappropriate postings! Any ideas?
> 
> Here's some ideas (realize that no other Windows compilers have their own
> news groups):
> 
> comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools.gnu-win32
> comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32.gnu-win32
> cygnus.public.gnuccplusplusnt95win32.chat
> 
Does the comp hierarchy require voting procedures in news.groups?
If yes I suppose anyone can start driving the campaign right now.
An alternative would maybe be to have it on just one local server
(or put it in an alt. group with an off-putting name to deter
the noise).


cj
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