Re: !!!!Voting Results for VRML Newsgroup!!!!

Marc Hedlund ([email protected])
Sat, 22 Apr 1995 10:54:23 -0700


At 10:04 AM 4/22/95, B.K. DeLong wrote:
>comp.vr.vrml wins hands down
[...]
>I will be making the necessary arangements to create the newsgroup
>comp.vr.vrml.
>Not only will this give us a newsgroup to discuss VRML, (as well as get rid
>of the thousands of messages we get daily), but it will establish the
>hiearchy "comp.vr".

B.K., thanks for taking the time to do this.

I don't mean to open another can of worms so soon after we've finished the
first, but I'd like to suggest that 'comp.vr.vrml' not be created in
isolation. Am I correct in believing that if it were, it would be the only
VR group in the 'comp' hierarchy? We should add at least one group, such
as 'comp.vr.misc', or maybe 'comp.vr.phil', to draw off non-technical
discussions. Otherwise, this one group could easily become littered with
threads about the latest VR5[*], goggle products, Snowcrash, etc.

Marc Hedlund <[email protected]>

[*] For readers who, blessedly, live outside the reaches of the Fox
television network, VR5 is an unintentionally comic television series about
VR. Good quote from the first episode: "Stop what you're doing, get rid of
your computer, and forget about it. It is more dangerous than you can ever
realize."