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From: zinnato@NADC.NADC.NAVY.MIL (R. Zinnato)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re:  information overload
Message-ID: <9006291359.AA04932@NADC.NADC.NAVY.MIL>
Date: 29 Jun 90 13:59:06 GMT
Sender: daemon@athena.mit.edu (Mr Background)
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>This looks like a useful newsgroup, but there are a lot of articles on
>different kinds of topics.
>
>Perhaps we can split the group?
>
>Maybe:
>
>        o Motif
>        o general X discussion
>        o future X versions
>        o Xt
>        o Xlib
>        o other libraries
>
>Maybe that is too many?  What do you think?

C'mon y'all, didn't we go through this before?  There is already another
group for Motif-specific questions.  (actually it's a mailing list, and I
think you have to actually *buy* the right to be on it...)
And the biggest problem is that not everybody contributing to these groups 
is a subscriber to "news".  A lot of us don't have access to this service 
and get all the stuff sent to us thru the mail via xpert.  Believe me, it's 
just as much a pain for me to sift thru anywhere from 50 to 75 mail messages 
a day, but I'd rather do that than be left off a "new newsgroup" and perhaps 
miss something that I may need.  Unless of course *you* want to volunteer to 
be in charge of setting up all of the mail gateways for all of these new 
groups...