Re: new MiNT list server?

[Martin-Eric Racine <q-funk@hal.fishpool.com>]

> However, I have some strategical/economical/tactical considerations
> on the subject:  One of the unwritten aims of this list is to encourage
> users and developers to still count on both MiNT and the Atari platform,
> isn't it?  From this point of view a group comp.os.mint on the usenet
> would help a lot because it proves to the world that both the Atari
> platform and MiNT are still alive and has quite a few users.

Nice idea, but I think it's wishfull thinking.

In case you're unaware of the procedure for creating newsgroups,
here's how it goes:

1) submit a proposition to the "new groups" newsgroup,
   explaining what could justify the creation of this 
   newsgroup, why existing newsgroups aren't appropriate.

2) brace for people on other platforms to object, during
   the one-month open debate.

3) expect Amiga and PC people to vote against it and outnumber
   the Atari crowd, when the time comes.  They will submit
   that Atari is dead and our small number will prove them right.

This is exactly what happened, when people tried to create a
comp.sys.atari.networking (or whatever the proposed name was).

Likewise, when people tried to eliminate comp.sys.atari.anounce,
when its moderator could not be found anymore.  Basically, Amiga
and PC people consider Atari as extinct and unimportant, so they c
find any proposition to expand our horizons as unjustified.
	   
> The same direction:  What about http://www.mint.org/, an "official"
> MiNT web site? 

We have been thinking about this, at Fishpool.  ;-))

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