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From: mikey@ontek.UUCP (Michael E. Lee)
Newsgroups: news.groups,rec.autos
Subject: Re: rec.autos split - CALL FOR DISCUSSION
Message-ID: <832@ontek.UUCP>
Date: 8 Dec 89 18:31:16 GMT
References: <315@watserv1.waterloo.edu>
Reply-To: mikey@ontek.UUCP (Michael E. Lee)
Organization: Krill Poster Corporation
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In article <315@watserv1.waterloo.edu> tom@mims-iris.waterloo.edu (Tom Haapanen) writes:
| ... Consider the following newsgroup descriptions:
| 
| rec.autos	    Discussions about cars
| rec.autos.driving Discussions about driving, radar detectors, fines, 55 mph

  I'm pretty sure everyone who reads rec.autos will end up reading
  rec.autos.driving/rec.driving too.  The cross- and mis- posting between
  rec.autos.tech and rec.autos is bad enough.  Threads of conversation
  in rec.autos frequently alternate between "red cars", "going fast" 
  "speeding tickets", "accidents" and "unintended acceleration".  Any
  of those topics will end up being cross posted, and instead of reading
  one newsgroups with 50 articles a day, I'll end up reading two newsgroups
  each with the same cross-posted 50 articles in them.  No thanks.

  It's always been my opinion that volume is best dealt with using
  the "k" key, not by splitting newsgroups.  

                          _K_r_i_l_l-_M_a_n 
                          mikey@ontek.uucp