From: ins739l@lindblat.cc.monash.edu.au (William Fang)
Subject: MONTHLY POSTING: Amiga newsgroups under comp.sys.amiga.* V1.4
Organization: Monash University
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 08:18:57 GMT


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    MONTHLY POSTING: Amiga newsgroups under comp.sys.amiga.* V1.4

This article contains a list of all newsgroups in comp.sys.amiga.*
with a short description of their purpose.  It is posted by me every
month in comp.sys.amiga.introduction.

Pay attention to the version number of this article. It indicates what
kind of changes are made to the contents compared to the previous
posting.

First number changed:
	Major changes, perhaps added newsgroups. (Although not very
likely.)
Second number changed:
	Minor changes and clarifications.


If you have suggestions about this article, feel free to mail them to
me so I can improve this document. You can reach me by e-mail:
10667547@eng2.eng.monash.edu.au         <- file server account
kroddos@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au           <_ Un*x account

I'd like to thank the following people for their contributions:

Kent Paul Dolan(xanthian@zorch.sf-bay.org)
	Who wrote the text of these group descriptions for the CFD III
for the creation of new comp.sys.amiga.* newsgroups.

			      DISCLAIMER
Use the information in this posting at your own risk and cost.
All opinions expressed are mine, not necessarily those of my employer.


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			       Introduction

All amiga related newsgroups are listed in alphabetical order. The last
newsgroup is comp.unix.amiga which isn't under comp.sys.amiga but also
belongs in this list.


			  comp.sys.amiga.advocacy

The large number of long lasting threads about "here's why the Amiga is
better than Brand W (and vice versa)"; "here's what the other folks are
doing and how the Amiga compares"; "why doesn't the Amiga have this Brand-X
computer feature", "Commodore should add feature Y (at no additional
cost)", "Commodore should recall everything and fix problem Z", benchmarks
comparing Amigas to Amigas and to other platforms; rumors, (lack of)
marketing complaints and suggestions for new ads, and general "do it
better" ranting go here.


			  comp.sys.amiga.announce

Moderated: Fred_Fish-disks, meetings, new products, product updates,
shareware releases, uploads to archives, tool bug reports, and other formal
announcements go here.


			comp.sys.amiga.applications

All discussions about application software without a specialised group go
here, like:  productivity, desk top publishing, personal finance, TeX,
METAFONT, Postscript, fonts, printer drivers, word processing, utilities,
hacks, etc. Commercial, shareware and freeware non-games, non-multimedia
software applications talk. How to use, how to interface, and so on.


			   comp.sys.amiga.audio

Music applications, MIDI, synthesized speech, voice input, sampled and
synthesized sound discussions go here.


			  comp.sys.amiga.datacomm

BBS software, terminal emulators and other modem software
({xpr,}{u,x,y,z}modem, kermit, etc.), ftp, networking, creating, using, and
passing archives (arc, zoo, lharc, lhwarp, pkazip, compress, uuencode and
uudecode, etc.), downloading and uploading text and binary files, email and
news, sharing software and data, compression methods, archive site
pointers, general machine to machine stuff. DNET, UUCP, PARNET, Ethernet,
etc. too.


			 comp.sys.amiga.emulations

Discussions of the several hardware and software emulations of other
computers (Mac, IBM-PC, Atari, C64, Apple 2 series, ZX-81(?), and more)
that run on/in (software/hardware emulations, respectively) the Amiga.
Includes discussions of games and applications running only under the
emulations, since they are not of interest to the rest of the Amiga
community.


			   comp.sys.amiga.games

Talking about buying and playing games; casual reviews and discussions go
on here.
Archival quality games reviews should go to c.s.a.reviews, "used games for
sale" ads should go to c.s.a.marketplace, and games software design
discussions should go to c.s.a.programmer or rec.games.programmer.


			  comp.sys.amiga.graphics

Charts, graphs, screen hacks, ray tracing, using graphics standards on the
Amiga (Renderman, PHIGS, GKS, CGM, Postscript, PIC, X windows), and other
still picture or completely non-serious graphics discussions go here. Image
packaging discussions also belong here or in c.s.a.datacomm, depending on
graphics or data compression focus.


			  comp.sys.amiga.hardware

Hardware discussions go here.  Hardware developers', hobbyists', and users'
"smell of solder" talk and assistance forum.
Formal hardware product reviews belong in c.s.a.reviews.


			comp.sys.amiga.introduction

Monitored: This is where newusers get introduced to the c.s.a.* groups, and
to the Amiga, and where experienced people can read and write answers to
common questions. Frequently asked questions postings, how to use the
c.s.a.* groups, and other standard and slow expiring postings go here, also
newusers questions and the answers to them from sympathetic gurus go here.
The goal is that all "normal operation" questions and answers go here
rather than in the more technical groups.


			comp.sys.amiga.marketplace

Mail order and retail vendor reviews, where to find it, where to get good
prices, informal product ratings; talk about buying and selling stuff for
the Amiga. Personal Amiga hardware and software "for sale" and "wanted" ads
go here too (But preferably in misc.forsale.computers.).


			    comp.sys.amiga.misc

The c.s.a.* general talk group. Post a multifaceted new thread here in
preference to crossposting. Crossposted articles within the c.s.a.*  groups
should use this group as the Followup-To line entry. This group replaces
the former comp.sys.amiga.


			 comp.sys.amiga.multimedia

Animations, video, television, and multimedia combinations of them with
graphics and music and speech. The showcase for the Amiga's five years as
the television studio microcomputer multimedia platform of choice.


			 comp.sys.amiga.programmer

Software developers' and programming hobbyists' "code cobbling" talk and
assistance forum.


			  comp.sys.amiga.reviews

Moderated, archived: where to put your formal reviews of new stuff for the
Amiga: hardware and freeware, shareware, or commercial serious and game
software.

1) The guidelines are not posted each month.  The volume for monthly
   postings was beginning to approximate that of the regular traffic.
   Instead, an index is posted monthly.  This points to _all_ prevoiusly
   posted reviews and all of the administrative postings.  Instructions on
   how to retrieve back reviews from the archive are also in the index.

2) The group, as mentioned above, is archived.  I maintain the archive and
   the archive server.  Instructions are in the monthly index.

3) I also allow informal reviews to appear, with few restrictions.  These
   are intended to allow people to give a short review without expending a
   large amount of effort.



			      comp.unix.amiga

Amiga Minix and Unix SYSV4 and successors, all Amiga specific aspects will
be discussed here.
			      



			      comp.binaries.amiga

This groups was created to pass binary files to people who don't have
access to ftp.  You will find binary file posted to this group will come
uuencoded and shared.  On the Amiga you will need two programs to undo
these files, unshar and uudecode.  You can find Unshar on Fish
disk 287 and uudecode on Fish disk 92.

			      alt.sys.amiga.uucp         
			      alt.sys.amiga.uucp.patches
				
These alt groups are for Matt Dillon UUCP package for the Amiga.  Other
UUCP packages such as AmigaUUCP Plus and Cnews are also discussed here.
The first group is for general discusstions on the UUCP packages in
general.  The second one is for posting patches, upgrades, large source
and binary files.  

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