From: thayne@unislc.uucp (Thayne Forbes) Subject: Re: Why not splitting this group? Date: Mon, 1 Feb 1993 19:58:42 GMT
James Michael Chacon (probreak@matt.ksu.ksu.edu) wrote:
: unrzf0@cip.rrze.uni-erlangen.de (Carl Scheuermann) writes:
:
: >I know, there has been a lot of talking about splitting this group.
: >But I can't understand, why it isn't possible to find a solution to this
: >problem. There are so many questions on how to install the XServer. So
: >why not creating a group comp.os.linux.X11. Or, for the people working
: >with TCP/IP, making a group comp.os.linux.TCP?
: >Please don't kill me if I say something that has been said a lot of times.
: >But the current state of this group isn't bearable any more - and it WILL
: >get worse.
:
: As a general rule, from what I have seen splitting groups does nothing
: to help traffic. As a matter of fact, it tends to increase as things
: get cross-posted. Overall the flood of articles does seem to be slowing a
: little lately.
Since we are already talking about things that should be obvious or
in the FAQ or both, I got quite good results by putting about a dozen
entries in my kill file for every bit of hardware that I don't have,
i.e. SCSI, S3, Diamond Stealth, 3c503, ad nausium. Also, I have
noticed that the traffic is slowing a bit.
Sticking with the obvious is still working for me.
-- Thayne Forbes thayne@unislc.slc.unisys.com Unisys Unix Support Engineering, Salt Lake City.