Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!dinghy.cis.ohio-state.edu!martens From: martens@dinghy.cis.ohio-state.edu (Jeff Martens) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: comp.sys.amiga.games - what do you think? Message-ID: <74677@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Date: 4 Dec 89 20:47:40 GMT References: <2637@caesar.cs.montana.edu> Sender: news@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Reply-To: Jeff Martens Distribution: usa Organization: Ohio State University Computer and Information Science Lines: 43 In article <2637@caesar.cs.montana.edu> icsu7039@caesar.cs.montana.edu (Spannring) writes: > I think it would be a great idea to cut down quantity of postings on >this group. I don't even have time to look through the subject lines to >decide what to read. > A few solutions > 1) Get the game stuff posted on rec.games.misc > 2) Make a new group comp.sys.amiga.games and get > the games stuff posted there. > 3) Have people put 'GAME:' in the subject line. > Then ones that don't want to read about games > could have a kill file to delete games. The problem with (1) is that people just interested in Amiga games would have to wade through what I'd guess is a lot of unrelated stuff. The problem with (3) is that people won't do it. For example, there was a plea on rec.sport.football to have people put (College) in subject lines if it wasn't pro, but the people actually unlazy enough to do this are in the minority. So, I lean strongly towards (2). A common response from people (justifiably) worried about the Amiga's image is that it would reinforce the misconception that the Amiga is just a game machine. I don't believe this is so: anyone believing this would just have to look at the net stats on the two newsgroups and notice that the nongame one has higher traffic. Why break them up? I, for one, don't play many games on my Amiga -- a good came can easily blow a month, a bad one a week or two. I have nothing against games, and if they help sell Amigas, great! But, I usually read news on a sluggish Sun 3 (X11, ya know), and cutting down the number of articles greatly speeds the processing of my kill file. And, without games, my kill file itself would be smaller and I wouldn't be adding to it all the time. In other words, it really would save me time. -=- -- Jeff (martens@cis.ohio-state.edu) Expect a severe winter -- I saw a trailer full of snowmobiles heading south on US 23.