Subject: pine newsgroup mod proposal

From: "Andrew B. Sweger" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 20 Jul 1994 14:59:01 -0700 (PDT)

Not desiring to set a match to anyone's flamethrower... 

I presently only subscribe to the pine-info mailing list and not the
comp.mail.pine newsgroup (so maybe this is my own problem). I'm wondering
if there is interest here to split out comp.mail.pine into two groups. For
example,

  comp.mail.pine-admin &             [techinical/admin discussions]
  comp.mail.pine-user,               [end-user questions/FAQs/etc.]

where pine-admin would remain linked with pine-info (perhaps alias
pine-admin -> pine-info would be good too). My purpose in following the
discussions and occasionally participating in this list is to enhance the
administration of my systems for my users. Maybe this is selfish of me. It
doesn't require an enormous amount of work on my part to skip through the
end-user questions (how to use the interface, people who don't read
on-line help, etc.) to find the juicy bits (like PEM/PGP support debates
[grin]). However, I'd much rather subscribe to a more technical channel
from the sysadmin's perspective (the way pine-info used to be). I already
have a pocketful of user's coming to me for answers. 

Is this an acceptable subject for the group? I'm sure I'll find out. 

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From: [email-masked] (Barry Bouwsma)
Date: Thu, 21 Jul 1994 14:21:22 GMT

In a previous article, [email-masked] ("Andrew B. Sweger") says:

>I'm wondering
>where pine-admin would remain linked with pine-info
>grin]). However, I'd much rather subscribe to a more technical channel
>from the sysadmin's perspective (the way pine-info used to be).

    I would suggest, rather than create a parallel group under comp.mail,
that a new hierarchy under comp.mail.pine be created.  comp.mail.pine.* ,
such as, say, comp.mail.pine.tech, comp.mail.pine.misc (which could serve
as todays' comp.mail.pine, eventually comp.mail.pine as a newsgroup itself
could be removed and replaced by the misc group if so desired).
    The reason being that there is a single group for Elm, and it is better

    Also, pine-announce could be gatewayed to a comp.mail.pine.announce (moderated).
And comp.mail.pine.bugs, if there is interest...
not to create so many parallel groups.

Barry Bouwsma
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