Yes, a group in the comp.* hierarchy would be the best...
unfortunately, creating a comp.* group is more difficult than an alt.*
group. The entire process would take at least 3 months: formal
proposal, request for discussion, call for votes. And if the vote
fails, there's a 6-month wait before you can try again. If someone
wants to get that started, great. Meanwhile, I think we can get an
alt.* group in a week or so...
If alt.* groups aren't carried at your site, you might try asking the
news administrator to make an exception and carry a specific group...
These are the suggestions so far:
alt.internet.cuseeme
alt.video.conference
alt.videophone
alt.multimedia.cu-seeme
alt.internet.multimedia
alt.cuseeme
alt.cuseeme.mac
alt.cuseeme.pc
alt.cuseeme.other
(I don't see comp.dcom.videoconf at Netcom. Is it carried on other
servers?)
>From the list above, I like 'alt.internet.cuseeme'. I think it sort
of fits into the existing alt.internet.* groups:
alt.internet.talk-radio, alt.internet.services. And it could be
expanded to include 'alt.internet.audio, alt.internet.video,
alt.internet.multimedia' if the need arose.
What about the scope of the group. "unrestricted discussion of the
CU-SeeMe packet video software" sounds like a good beginning...
Bill Neisius
neisius@netcom.com