Aucbvax.5858
fa.info-vax
utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!info-vax
Tue Jan 19 23:50:44 1982
Use of the list info-vax
>From decvax!duke!bcw@Berkeley Tue Jan 19 23:49:04 1982
I'm not sure that there are only two sides to the debate over splitting
fa.info-vax into two groups (fa.info-vax and fa.info-vms). The entire
newsgroup structure with unix-wizards, net.bugs.*, info-vax (and now
the proposed info-vms) is quite chaotic; there is much traffic in the
other groups (such as unix-wizards) about vax hardware related topics.
I was under the impression that info-vax was to be contrasted with
unix-wizards as a parallel newsgroup for the vms people (albeit with a
rather misleading name). I for one would be in favor of a complete
reorganization of the newsgroup structure in these areas -- unix-wizards
for strictly unix-related topics (no hardware), a list (say info-vms)
for strictly vms-related topics, and lists (say info-vax and info-pdp11)
for strictly hardware-related topics. These names are probably not the
best because they don't have any obvious orthogonal relationships with
each other, but have something of the force of tradition going with
them.
For that matter, I would probably subscribe to all of them (and, for
example, any equivalent DEC-10 lists which might materialize ... there
has been some traffic on these topics from time to time). I The topics
discussed about unix, vms, tenex, and the associated hardware are all
germane to my job (even though I don't deal with any DEC-10's at the
moment, the discussion comparing operating systems with those on the
DEC-10 has been educational; I do have to deal with both unix and vms
and both vax and pdp-11 malhines every day). There are probably other
people on the net in the same situation.
Bruce C. Wright @ Duke University
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