I agree with this assessment as well. I think this kind of setup would make 
things a lot less confusing. I've had many times when I've posted something 
that was generic but because it was an eMac or iMac I was told to post on that 
list, yet it could have happened on a Power Mac as well.



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From: Bruce Johnson <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: Fang Fabian <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2011 12:06 PM
Subject: Re: [Manager Comment] Re: Posting Problem.

If I were king of the forest, all these myriad LEM lists would be reduced to a 
handful:

68K Macs (both laptop and desktops, because these are waaay obsolete by now.)
OldWorld Macs (PowerPC old world machines, both laptops and desktops as above.)
PowerPC desktops (covering pci-based PowerMacs from the iMac and beige 60x and 
G3 models up through the G5 models, both PowerMac and iMac.)
PowerPC laptops    (covering all New World Powerbooks and iBooks)
Intel desktops (covering all intel-based desktop systems Mac Pros and iMacs)
Intel laptops (covering all models of MacBook.)
LEMSwap (of course!)

There is NO REASON to ghettoize OS discussion into it's own groups; 
particularly as there are often hardware-specific issues along with the 
question, and as often as not there are questions like 'I need a web cam, 
what's a good suggestion?' That's not really tied to any hardware or software; 
so you would ask it on the list for your particular Mac.

With fewer groups, we'd get more subscribers, and more eyeballs, on the 
problems. We'd have less duplication, and better answers for everyone.
-- 
Bruce Johnson
University of Arizona
College of Pharmacy
Information Technology Group

Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs



      

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