From: seidl@midway.dcrt.nih.gov (Edward Seidl) Subject: Re: number of articles Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1993 13:37:06 GMT
In article <733832843snxwomble@spuddy.UUCP> sweh.womble@spuddy.UUCP (Stephen Harris) writes:
>
>We had a VOTE on splitting comp.os.linux a little while ago. It was voted
>NO.
>
>Any further discussion at this stage is pointless, useless, and just adds to
>the traffic. A further CFD, RFV etc can not be done under Usenet guidelines
>for a few more months yet.
>
>Read the regular posting "**** READ THIS BEFORE POSTING ***", from which
>I quote:
>+++++
>Splitting the group: It's been tried, and all the new groups except .announce
>failed. It can't be tried again within 6 months. See news.announce.newgroups.
>-----
>Obviously people don't "read this before posting". Sheesh.
>
True, but does Ian's posting say when the vote was? (I honestly don't
remember and don't feel like digging around for it.) If memory serves,
the last vote was in November, which means that we could vote again
in May. Be prepared for a deluge of "split this group" postings in the
near future. :(
Ed