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From: instone@bgsuvax.UUCP (Keith Instone)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Splitting comp.graphics
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Date: 17 Jan 90 16:32:22 GMT
Organization: Bowling Green State University B.G., Oh.
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If everyone wants to split comp.graphics, I recommend doing it one
group at a time, not by creating 5 new graphics offshoots all at once. 

I would like to see creation of just a *.formats now to relieve some of the 
traffic (also called 'useless dribble' by someone) in comp.graphics.

Later, when comp.graphics becomes too unwieldly again, another
group can be added, perhaps *.research or *.hardware.

This is how the comp.sys.mac.* newsgroups evolved and the transition has
been relatively smooth with little cross-posting and no unused newsgroups.

This method also has the benefit of being quicker and easier to do. We
could argue for weeks about which 5 new groups to add, while if we decide
now on ONE new group, the voting could be done and we could be using
the new one in a few weeks.


Keith instone@andy.bgsu.edu