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From: tale@pawl.rpi.edu (David C Lawrence)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Gnu + other emacs
Message-ID: <1989Oct27.062513.13794@rpi.edu>
Date: 27 Oct 89 06:25:13 GMT
References: <1771@onion.reading.ac.uk> <47391@bbn.COM>
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY
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sf1@rosemary.cs.reading.ac.uk (Fruitbat) writes:
>Is there any way to sort out the GNU and other emacs articles?

As Wayne says, use kill files.

>I'm fed up of wading through lots of GNU articles all the time.

Wading?  comp.emacs barely sees enough traffic to get the tops of your
feet wet.

>Isn't there a gnu-emacs newsgroup? I thought there was.

There is.  gnu.emacs.  It is not, however, as widely distributed as
comp.emacs.  It is also directly gated with the info-gnu-emacs mailing
list, which is the newsgroup's legitimate parent, and RMS can get
rather bothered by discussion which would be quite acceptable in
comp.emacs. 

In <47391@bbn.COM> mesard@bbn.com (Wayne Mesard) writes:
Wayne> I would support an effort to keep all the GNU discussion in
Wayne> gnu.emacs.* since reading both groups is sort of a drag.
Wayne> What's gnu.all's distribution like these days?

Pretty good, overall. gnu.emacs is one of the most widely distributed
gnu.* groups.

Wayne> And more importantly, will The Man mind non-devotees using
Wayne> GNU's newsgroups?

Probably.

Wayne> Alternatively, we could try to create comp.emacs.gnu.  In a way this
Wayne> seems more fair, since the GNU content of the current comp.emacs and
Wayne> gnu.emacs are somewhat different.

Traffic simply doesn't justify a split.  Discussion in news.groups
would shoot this bird down in a second.

Dave
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