From: aclark@netcom.com (Al Clark) Subject: Re: misc questions(gcc2.11, filenames, this group) Date: 28 May 1992 02:35:55 GMT
In article <KAYVAN.92May27035857@satyr.Sylvan.COM> kayvan@satyr.Sylvan.COM (Kayvan Sylvan) writes:
>In article <k!3klp#.aclark@netcom.com> aclark@netcom.com (Al Clark) writes:
>
> (Yes, I know about kill files, but they use
> up so much time and space resources that I avoid them.)
>
> But using the mailing list topics as the initial set of breakouts is
> probably a good start.
>
>I see. You don't want to use the technology available (kill files and
>miscellaneous other methods) because it's personally inconvenient. Yet
>you don't hesitate to break up the newsgroup, which would be an
>inconvenience to a lot more people.
That's not exactly what I said. Kill files use up resources on a shared
system on this end. I was adding a vote to a number of people who would
like to see the group further broken out, as is quite normally done when
volume gets large on newsgroups. I don't understand the "inconvenience
to a lot of people". Unless there's something I don't understand about
the complexity of "breaking up the news group". comp.mail has articles
in it as well as having subgroups, for example. I was suggesting that
the current topics (like X) could be an initial set of subgroups,
like c.o.l.X, c.o.l.scsi, and so forth.
>I vote we keep the group the same. I read it all and I don't want to
>be on a gazillion mailing lists each devoted to one corner of the
>Linux world.
>
> ---Kayvan
>--
I don't understand your point. I don't want to be on a bunch of mailing
lists either; I was agreeing with others that wanted to avoid mailing
lists and still not wade through a lot of c.o.l traffic.
Actually, if the c.o.l was "broken up", you would be able to subscribe
to all the groups, with no inconvenience I can see. There are a few
posters that don't cross post and post to multiple groups, but I haven't
noticed very much of it. And people could still post general info to
c.o.l
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