[Xcircuit-dev] Suggestion to open a USENET group for xcircuit and friends

[Svenn Are Bjerkem]

Hi,

now we have a new web site, a wiki, a mailinglist, and I am starting to get 
hot on a newsgroup on USENET covering the tools that Tim support.

The reason that I suggest this is that I do not have access to my private mail 
at work, but I really do need the info there. USENET messages are archived on 
groups.google.com which has a good search function and as a registered user 
it is possible to write articles on the web interface. (Not all companies 
maintain internal newsfeeds)

As an example look at comp.cad.cadence which is covering the tools offered 
from Cadence.

The newsgroup is meant to augment whatever info channels already available. 
Maybe the mailinglist will suffer a bit.

Now, I would like to have the xcircuit newsgroup in the comp.cad hierarchy 
which needs a ballot. That means that I have to write a charter for the 
newsgroup and then put it on a special discussion list where people vote for 
it to be created. 

What I want to discuss here is how to conqueror and divide: One list called 
comp.cad.opencircuitdesign for all, or one separate for each: comp.cad.magic, 
comp.cad.xcircuit etc. I would start with comp.cad.xcircuit as that is easier 
to get through, I hope.

I will not suggest to use any web based forum software as they grow clumsy and 
have lots of bugs and spam etc. Besides, I do not like forums as I always 
forget passwords.

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Svenn