CFV: comp.unix.sco.*
Ed Hew
From: s...@ntrs.com (Steve Bonine)
FIRST CALL FOR VOTES (of 2)
unmoderated groups comp.unix.sco.{misc,programmer}
moderated group comp.unix.sco.announce
Newsgroups lines:
comp.unix.sco.misc SCO Unix, Systems, and Environments.
comp.unix.sco.programmer Programming in and for SCO Environments.
comp.unix.sco.announce SCO and related product announcements. (Moderated)
Votes must be received by 29:59:59 UTC, 12 April 1995.
This vote is being conducted by a neutral third party. For voting questions
only contact Steve Bonine <s...@ntrs.com>. For questions about the proposed
group contact Ed Hew <ed...@xenitec.on.ca>.
CHARTERS
comp.unix.sco.misc:
Questions, answers, comments and discussion about past, present and
future SCO and related third party products and services, not more
specifically covered by one of the other newsgroups, including but
not limited to:
- SCO UNIX operating system,
- networking products (TCP/IP, NFS, LAN Manager, IPX/SPX, DCE, OSI),
- graphical products (X server and clients),
- DOS Merge,
- The Open Desktop and Open Server operating environments which
incorporate most of the above components.
- SCO's older applications, when running on SCO UNIX.
- SCO's support and other policies.
- Third party hardware, software and services.
- SCO environment specific "help wanted" postings.
Commercial advertisements are explicitly forbidden.
comp.unix.sco.programmer:
Questions, answers, comments and discussion about past, present and
future SCO development system products and related software and issues,
including but not limited to:
- UNIX and Open Desktop development systems,
- SCO Visual TCL.
- DCE developers toolkit,
- Device Driver Writer's toolkit/Advanced Hardware Developer Kit
- Public domain, shareware, and third party development tools
of use in SCO operating environments.
- SCO software distribution mastering toolkits
- API questions, compiler behavior, header files, libraries,
binary formats, manifest defines, etc.
- Porting.
Commercial advertisements are explicitly forbidden.
comp.unix.sco.announce: (Moderated by Ed Hew <ed...@xenitec.on.ca>)
Product, service, and business announcements of reasonable interest
to the SCO community of developers, distributors, resellers,
consultants, administrators and end-users, submitted by:
- SCO,
- third party software and hardware developers, SCO-specific
service providers, and authors of freely available software.
This explicitly includes SCO supplement information (SLS, TLS, EFS, etc.)
Blatant and/or irrelevant commercial "ads" will continue to be rejected.
RATIONALE
The essence of the proposal is to move and restructure the existing
biz.sco.* newsgroups into a comp.unix.sco hierarchy. A successful CFV
will result in removal of the existing biz.sco.* hierarchy in accordance
with the biz.* newsgroup creation/removal guidelines.
comp.unix.sco.misc (rename/merge from biz.sco.{general,opendesktop,magazine})
comp.unix.sco.programmer (rename/rescope from biz.sco.vtcl)
comp.unix.sco.announce [moderated] (rename from biz.sco.announce)
The obsolete biz.sco binaries and sources newsgroups would not be migrated.
Although frequently posted FAQs illustrate the location of existing
biz.sco.* newsgroups, it has been repeatedly demonstrated that new
posters often do not know where to find them. Newcomers expect to find
the SCO newsgroups alongside peer operating systems like Novell Unixware
(comp.unix.unixware), IBM AIX (comp.unix.aix), and Sun Solaris
(comp.unix.solaris). Neglecting the biz.sco.* sub-hierarchy, they post
to less specific newsgroups (comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit, comp.unix.sys5.r3),
or to completely inappropriate newsgroups (comp.unix.xenix.sco,
comp.unix.unixware).
Some posters in relatively weakly connected corners of the globe (South
Africa, New Zealand, eastern Europe etc.) have continuing difficulty
getting reliable feeds of the biz.sco.* newsgroups because upstream sites
may not carry them. Sometimes people don't even know the newsgroups exist
because upstream site administrators omit the entire biz.* hierarchy,
despite ongoing efforts to enhance global propagation of the biz.*
hierarchy. Distribution of the existing SCO newsgroups under the biz
hierarchy is still less than that anticipated within the "comp" hierarchy.
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