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From: tom@mims-iris.waterloo.edu (Tom Haapanen)
Newsgroups: news.groups,rec.autos
Subject: rec.autos split - CALL FOR DISCUSSION
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Date: 5 Dec 89 21:59:01 GMT
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The volume in rec.autos has been getting quite high, and I've been
thinking for a while about ideas for splitting the newsgroup to
make it more manageable.  I've given thought to, but discarded,
rec.autos.minivan, rec.autos.radar, rec.autos.55mph, rec.autos.my-
car-is-better-than-yours and rec.autos.all-american-cars-suck.  :)

The blinding flash of innovation that I had this morning made sense
of it all, doing a logical split and even distributing the traffic
fairly evenly.  Consider the following newsgroup descriptions:

rec.autos	    Discussions about cars
rec.autos.driving   Discussions about driving, radar detectors, fines, 55 mph

Of course, we already have

rec.autos.sport	    Discussions about motorsports
rec.autos.tech	    Discussions about maintaining and repairing cars

Does the traffic volume warrant this?  I believe so; from Nov 27 through
Dec 5, we had 320 articles in rec.autos, or 40 articles a day.  I roughly
divided these into the new categories, and I came up with:

	rec.autos		144
	rec.autos.driving	166
	rec.autos.tech		  9	(misposted into rec.autos)
	alt.flame		  1	(misposted into rec.autos)

What will this gain us?  It will make it possible to easily follow either
the car discussions or the driving discussions only.  If you want to read
both, you can simply subscribe to both groups.

If the discussion is generally positive, I will be posting a call for 
votes for rec.autos.driving in accordance with the guidelines after
Christmas, on about Dec 27.

                                        \tom haapanen
"now, you didn't really expect          tom@mims-iris.waterloo.edu
 my views to have anything to do        watmims research group
 with my employer's, did you?"          university of waterloo

"I don't even know what street Canada is on"  -- Al Capone


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