From: drew@ophelia.cs.colorado.edu (Drew Eckhardt) Subject: Re: SPLIT #$%&%$ THIS GROUP NOW!!!!!!! Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 03:52:14 GMT
Net news has more than just comp.os.linux*. There are a number of other
hierchies, such as comp.windows.x, comp.unix, etc that are better suited
to many linux questions.
If people would use these, and then post to comp.os.linux only after
reading the various FAQ's, info sheets, and TFM, maybe we wouldn't
have any traffic problems.
In article <BCR.92Dec12201153@hfl3sn02.cern.ch> bcr@cernapo.cern.ch (Bill Riemers) writes:
>
>I'm not sure why .bugs failed, but it is clear why .questions and .misc failed.
>What is the difference? Also what would be the point of posting to .questions,
The FAQ, TFM, and comp.os.unix.questions probably cover 99% of the traffic
that would end up in this group. The other 1% of this traffic shouldn't
make a significant impact on comp.os.linux.
>when the experts would probably just read .bugs and .misc.
> .x11
Try
comp.windows.x.announce
comp.windows.x.motif
comp.windows.x.pex
comp.windows.x.apps
comp.windows.x.intrinsics
For general questions, you'll reach a much wider audience that is
knowledgeable about X.
There shouldn't be any real linux specific issues for X (You could
make an argument for -pn (no tcp-ip support), but some commercial
vendors have unbundled tcp/ip and -pn would apply for them)
comp.windows.x.i386unix should catch all of the Xfree stuff, this
will benefit the BSD crowd and everybody with a commercial x86
unix that wants an R5 server and clients.
> .dosemulation
Try comp.unix.dos-under-unix. Technical issues should go to the
mailing list where they won't be lost in the noise.
> .graphics
Outside of a few X related posts, and an anouncement for shared libraries
handling jpeg, etc, I haven't seen any recent graphics related posts on
comp.os.linux.
> .install
Read the FAQ.
Read the instructions that come with the SLS distribution.
No problem.
>
>This is hardly intended to be a complete list, but merily the obvious ones
>that came to mind.
Please drop the split discussions. More sub groups weren't created because
people didn't want them, or didn't care enough to participate in the
RFD or CFVs. If you still feel the same way in six months, start a
new RFD.
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