From: bogstad@blaze.cs.jhu.edu (Bill Bogstad) Subject: Re: Alternatives to splitting the newsgroup Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1992 21:33:56 GMT
In article <1992Jul20.192927.4438@athena.mit.edu> tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o) writes:
>As one of the original instigators of alt.os.linux, and then
>comp.os.linux, I would like to join with Linus and arl in saying that
>splitting comp.os.linux would be a BAD idea. There are many good
>reasons for keeping c.o.l. as one newsgroup, and various people have
>given them already: It would cut the Fidonet relay out; it would leave
>the 140 or so people who receive c.o.l via the Linux Digests out in the
>cold.
Those same arguments could be used to suggest that the special Linux
LISTSERVs for SCSI, X?, etc. should be done away with as well. As someone
who prefers to handle must information sources via a news interface, I'm
being left out in the cold. By the way, I'm not saying that your arguments
are without merit or that special LISTSERVs are necessarily a bad idea.
Ways of making a split work with the Digests are possible. Multiple
submission addresses (one for each newsgroup) are one possibility.
Bill Bogstad
P.S. The rest of your article had some other great ideas about a special
address to handle novice questions etc. It was just your opening paragraph
with which I had a problem.