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Subject: CFV: comp.sys.sony.news
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From: Mike Chapman <mike@ecosys.drdr.virginia.edu>
Date: 11 Jun 1993 13:37:48 -0400
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CALL FOR VOTE (1)
This is a call for voting on the the creation of a newsgroup to provide
support for users of the Sony NEWS workstations, including the 68k, R3000
and R4000 models (and any others made by Sony). Hardware and software
support would hopefully be provided, allowing owners of this unfortunately
under-supported platform access to online assistance and discussion.
Group Name:
comp.sys.sony.news
Topic:
Sony NEWS Workstations / NEWS-OS
Status:
unmoderated
Further information:
Sony has been making Unix-based workstations for several years, but their
acceptance in the US has been limited. There are, however, a substantial
number of users, particularly those of older models, who have been left
largely without any free support. There is at least one newgroup in the
fj hierarchy, but that is unfortunately not carried by most nntp servers
in the US. Hopefully such a newsgroup in comp.sys would allow a greater
number of users access to the much needed assistance.
Voting:
Please send email to mike@ecosys.drdr.virginia.edu with the name of the
group and your vote on the matter. Vote only once - extra votes will
be discarded. If you would like more information, please feel free
to email me. Voting will last one month from the date of posting,
at which time the votes will be organized into a format suitable for
general review and the result will be announced. If your email to
ecosys fails, votes will also be accepted by mike@hopper.acs.virginia.edu.
The end of the voting period is 11 July 1993, 23:59 UTC.
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mike@hopper.acs.virginia.edu mike@ecosys.drdr.virginia.edu
Custom Unix Software and Networking Engineer.