From: talley@ashleigh.Kodak.COM (Brian K. Talley) Subject: Re: NJ/SML Date: 30 Sep 1992 12:16:27 GMT
In article <1992Sep29.203910.2837@odin.diku.dk> dingbat@diku.dk (Niels Skov Olsen) writes:
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>I don't think so, because a split-up would probably just mean that
>people would cross-post to several groups in order to get more
>sighting. After all that's what's happening in other sub-trees,
>and I don't find it very managable.
Not from my experience. If you tried to cram all the traffic from the Mac
or Amiga or NeXT newsgroups into one group, you might improve bandwidth a
little, but the user would have a bunch of fun wading through everything!
C.o.l. is fine, but there are more and more articles that have nothing to do
with the development of Linux (like this one, and yours).
This has concept has worked out fine elsewhere, so why would it be inapprop-
riate for Linux?
How about:
comp.os.linux - General discussion
comp.os.linux.advocacy - Discussions on pros & cons of Linux VS other Unix's
comp.os.linux.announce - New releases and updates of software
comp.os.linux.beginners - Frequent FAQ posting & a place for beginners to
ask questions
comp.os.linux.hardware - New device drivers, hardware compatibility issues
comp.os.linux.software - Software discussions (eg: TeX VS FrameMaker)
comp.os.linux.tech - In-depth hard/software discussion
>>No flames, please, I *know* you use a sh*tty newsreader who can't
>>handle a) more groups, b) crosspostings but only kill-files..but I
>>don't.
>
>If you intend to read all the groups and handle crosspostings, then
>why split up??? (No fl*mes intended :-)
>
>Niels
Do you really think there are *that* many people out there who would cross
post "HOW DO I PICK MY NOSE ????" articles to every Linux newsgroup that
frequently?
--Brian
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Brian Talley, Systems Consultant, Eastman Kodak Research Labs, Rochester, NY
talley@acadia.kodak.com