From: Jim Meehan
Subject: RFD: comp.lang.lisp.mcl
Date:
Message-ID: <tsshzqf@rpi.edu>
Request For Discussion (RFD) on creation of comp.lang.lisp.mcl
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Author: Jim Meehan (······@src.dec.com)
Date: June 3, 1991
Proposed newsgroup:
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Name : comp.lang.lisp.mcl
Charter : A forum to discuss Macintosh Common Lisp
Moderated : No
Proposal:
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The purpose of the newsgroup is to provide a forum for talking about
Apple's Macintosh Common Lisp (MCL), earlier versions of which were
called Coral Common Lisp (CCL) and Macintosh Allegro Common Lisp (MACL).
There is currently a mailing list, ·········@cambridge.apple.com,
maintained by the Apple/Cambridge office for this purpose, but the
large quantity of mail and the types of discussions make it clear that a
newsgroup might be a more appropriate mechanism.
comp.lang.lisp has become something of a Babel of messages about the
language Common Lisp, bug-reports for specific implementations,
questions from rank novices, inquiries about freeware, complaints about
machine-specific bootstrapping hassles, comparisons of vendors, and
lots more. The info-macl mailing list has at least spared
comp.lang.lisp readers from the nitty gritty detail of the Mac
implementation, but given the different priority with which some of
us treat mail vs. news, not to mention the increasing number of requests
from people who feel so swamped that they wish to be removed from the
mailing list, we think that a newsgroup would be better.
I would like to be able to issue the official call for votes by June
15th, so please add your voice to this discussion, if you're interested,
as soon as possible. Note that the discussion happens on news.groups,
so post your comments there. If you don't have post-access to
news.groups, send your comments to me and I will forward them.
If the votes for the newsgroup are not in favor, the mailing list will
still be maintained. Apple/Cambridge has volunteered to handle whatever
administrative tasks would be required by USENET, but this would be
an unmoderated group.