User group Newsletter Editors: Utilize this content in your newsletter -- PLEASE ... reference UG Network Channel ... Shareware Manager is coming: YUM! Show us the shareware! The Info Manager is looking for your rumors and tidbits... give him a post! ...or subscribe... see subscription notes below Info Manager - 11/17/Y2K New Domain Options; OSX on Intel; Comdex; Postage; Seagate . New Domain Options According to an article in Network World Fusion, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers has narrowed the list of new domains to 10. They are: .biz, .web, .nom, .per, .i, .name, .coop, .union, .air and .geo. Two others .museum and .health are still possible, but apparently not likely. They did veto .kids and .xxx. These aren't final yet, but at least we know what direction they are heading. The article is at: http://www.idg.net/go.cgi?id=361123 . OSX on Intel One of our regular readers (Tom Clow) sent in this web site that proposes a petition to get Apple to produce MacOSX for on Intel machines. It is: http://www.osxonintel.com/ Not really sure that I think this is a good thing. But if you do, then sign the petition. . Comdex MacWorld maybe the largest trade show to hit San Francisco each year. (This year is predicted to have about 85K in attendance). It is small potatoes compared to Comdex. CNN is reporting that 200K will be in attendance this week in Las Vegas. There will be 2100 exhibitors with people from 145 countries. To top it off there are at least 11 other Comdex events held around the world each year. Bet is is fun to attend Comdex as a computer buyer for some major corporation. If you are attending, give us a report on how it goes. Otherwise, lets look forward to January and MacWorld Expo. . Postage Computer World is reporting that the US Postal Rate Commission not only agreed to allow a 1 cent increase in first class mail, but would allow a discount for postage purchased via the Internet. Perhaps as much as a 4 cent discount. But from the way the story is written, it sounds like the vendor would get the discount and it would be up to him how much to pass on. So stay tuned for more information. Read the full story . Seagate The Register is reporting that Seagate has announce 180 Gigabyte hard drive. Now we will really be able to edit video on a computer. (And to think my first hard drive was 20 Megabytes.) Full Story at: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/2/14707.html . Quote of the Week: "It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult." -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 BC - 65 AD), philosopher, dramatist, statesman . pau **** Don't forget ... the Info Manager invites you to use all or part of his column in your user group newsletter. Please let him know, and if possible send an electronic copy for the old scrapbook. Any suggestions for topics and reports of rumors are always welcome. Please me know. Thanks The Info Manager is a veteran of the UGN (AOL User Groups Forum) and User Group Network. He's been a supporter and volunteer on many, many UGNet and User Group Academy projects. As a long time user group member, he's served as volunteer from Honolulu to Boston and many points in between. Currently working with the Apple Corp of Dallas, the Dallas Mac Pack, Cowtown MUG of Ft. Worth and TUMS (the Tulsa Users of Macintosh Society) doing newsletter articles and the monthly CD-ROM Update. Post a lead Rumor Manager should follow up on. Subscribe to Rumors@lists.user-groups.net rumors-on@lists.user-groups.net for more information go to: http://www.user-groups.net/ugcommunity/subscribe.html UG Network Channel _ / _ NEWS _ / _ UG Library _ / _ UG Bookshelf Article Reprints -- User Group Network Affiliates may reprint articles as long as full credit is given. Other Non-profit or non-commercial publications should contact us. The UGNN cannot guarantee accuracy or timeliness of articles. Many have been forwarded to us by field correspondents, or press release services. All care is taken to assure the accuracy of URLs and email addresses. Some items may be 30 to 60 days old. The User Group Network is an affiliate of the News-Serve Network - All commercial names herein, including publication, product, and company names are assumed to be the registered trademarks of their companies. UGN, UGNN, UGNet News, UG Idea Exchange, are all trademarks for The User Group Network, copyright 2001, all rights reserved. Copyright 2001, The User Group Network, http://www.user-groups.net/News-Service.