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From: gary@dgcad.SV.DG.COM (Gary Bridgewater)
Newsgroups: news.software.b,news.admin
Subject: Re: suggestion: news.software.c
Keywords: restructure
Message-ID: <1811@proa.SV.DG.COM>
Date: 2 Jun 90 20:39:33 GMT
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Organization: Data General SDD, Sunnyvale, CA
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Please don't split it!

The news.software region of the world plays to a pretty restricted
audience.   The problems of one group are often the problems of
another - and even when that isn't strictly true consider that
b-news and c-news sites are intermixed all across the feed chain.
A bug in one can be rapidly felt in the other.

Also, an innovation in one can be useful to the other - dbz, for instance,
is a big + for b-news sites,  especially those without dbm.

What would be gained by splitting them?  Most of us would just read both
groups.  Newcomers may not know the value of that and they might miss
important information posted in the "other" newsgroup.

If the ".b" part is off-putting to c-news sites then by all means let us
rename it generically to ease the annoyance.  As a, currently, b-news site
I could live with ".c" if it kept the group from splitting.
-- 
Gary Bridgewater, Data General Corporation, Sunnyvale California
gary@sv.dg.com or {amdahl,aeras,amdcad}!dgcad!gary
The impossible we understand right away - the obvious takes a little longer.