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From: gpitcher@edpmgt.UUCP (Glenn Pitcher)
Newsgroups: news.groups,rec.autos
Subject: Re: rec.autos split - CALL FOR DISCUSSION
Summary: I gotta get my 2 bits in this time.
Message-ID: <217@edpmgt.UUCP>
Date: 12 Dec 89 23:03:28 GMT
References: <315@watserv1.waterloo.edu>
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In article <315@watserv1.waterloo.edu>, tom@mims-iris.waterloo.edu (Tom Haapanen) writes:
> 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.
> 
I agree with this is 100%. Let's do it!!

(Just thought I'd get my two bits in this time)

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