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Re: how come no comp.sys.mac.[system.]ios ?

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In article <lok45m$4a2$2@dont-email.me>, Doc
<droleary@2q2014.subsume.com> wrote:

> For your reference, records indicate that 
> Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote:
> 
> > Okay, so one time? In band camp? Alan Browne
> > <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> was all, like: 
> > 
> > >> I'd support a comp.sys.ios newsgroup.
> > 
> > > Sure - OTOH the present hybrid of iPhone / iPad works for me.
> > 
> > There are iPhone topics, there are iPad topics, and there are iOS
> > topics.
> 
> All the more reason to give it a proper place in the hierarchy.  With
> Apple TV and the ever-expected iWatch, or any other iOS-based devices
> they might be dreaming up, now would be a good time to do some
> housekeeping.

Keep in mind that the iPad newsgroup was started because subscribers to
the iPhone newsgroup didn't like the fact that the iPad was being
discussed there.  So maybe the fragmentation is a good thing.  But if
you want to pursue the possibility of creating a new iOS newsgroup (and
folding the existing iPad and iPhone newsgroups into it), here's a good
start:

<http://big-8.org/articles/h/o/w/How_to_Create_a_New_Big-8_Newsgroup.htm
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how come no comp.sys.mac.[system.]ios ? BakersT <nomailpls@domain.invalid> - 2014-06-26 10:41 -0400
  Re: how come no comp.sys.mac.[system.]ios ? dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2014-06-27 02:56 +1200
    Re: how come no comp.sys.mac.[system.]ios ? BakersT <nomailpls@domain.invalid> - 2014-06-26 11:16 -0400
    Re: how come no comp.sys.mac.[system.]ios ? Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2014-06-27 09:30 +1200
  Re: how come no comp.sys.mac.[system.]ios ? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-06-26 16:04 +0000
  Re: how come no comp.sys.mac.[system.]ios ? Patty Winter <patty1@wintertime.com> - 2014-06-26 21:49 +0000
  Re: how come no comp.sys.mac.[system.]ios ? Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2014-06-26 18:08 -0400
    Re: how come no comp.sys.mac.[system.]ios ? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-06-26 22:47 +0000
      Re: how come no comp.sys.mac.[system.]ios ? Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2014-06-26 20:47 -0400
        Re: how come no comp.sys.mac.[system.]ios ? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-06-27 04:50 +0000
          Re: how come no comp.sys.mac.[system.]ios ? Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2014-06-27 06:48 -0400
          Re: how come no comp.sys.mac.[system.]ios ? Darrin "Doc" O'Leary  <droleary@2q2014.subsume.com> - 2014-06-27 15:55 +0000
            Re: how come no comp.sys.mac.[system.]ios ? Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2014-06-27 09:29 -0700
              Re: how come no comp.sys.mac.[system.]ios ? Darrin "Doc" O'Leary  <droleary@2q2014.subsume.com> - 2014-06-27 20:53 +0000
                Re: how come no comp.sys.mac.[system.]ios ? Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2014-06-27 18:13 -0700
                Re: how come no comp.sys.mac.[system.]ios ? Darrin "Doc" O'Leary  <droleary@2q2014.subsume.com> - 2014-06-28 16:58 +0000
            Re: how come no comp.sys.mac.[system.]ios ? Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2014-06-29 10:01 +1200
  Re: how come no comp.sys.mac.[system.]ios ? williamwright.orsk@gmail.com - 2014-06-27 07:00 -0700
    Re: how come no comp.sys.mac.[system.]ios ? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-06-28 22:02 +0000

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