From: rad@think.com (Bob Doolittle) Subject: Re: misc questions(gcc2.11, filenames, this group) Date: 28 May 1992 19:10:48 GMT
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.
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.
That's the whole point, in my view. We already have a gazillion mailing
lists for things such as X11 and GCC, which are not posted to the net
(except in the digests of linux-activists), in order to keep the net
traffic down. This makes joining a channel of linux-activists a tough
proposition - for context of the discussions you have to find the digests,
and pick out the messages for your channel from the digests (where they're
all grouped together in one big file), without all the nice
subject-following interface commands you're used to when reading netnews.
Al's point was to make a branch of the newsgroup for each of what is
currently a channel of linux-activists as a starting point. This would
simplify life greatly. Then we can make more subgroups as the need arises
(SCSI would be a good candidate, although there may already be a channel in
linux-activists for this).
-Bob