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From: boris@tornado.Berkeley.EDU (Boris Chen)
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Subject: Re: CALL FOR DISCUSSION: REC.PETS, REC.BIRDS division.
Message-ID: <1990Aug17.222601.27673@agate.berkeley.edu>
Date: 17 Aug 90 22:26:01 GMT
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In article <1990Aug17.173217.27746@nmt.edu> john@nmt.edu (John Shipman) writes:

>I think that one's perception of the volume in a group
>depends on the baud rate at which one reads it.  With a
>38,400 baud hardwired connection, it doesn't take very long
>to put an article on the screen.  But I often read rec.birds
>at 1200 baud, and at that rate it takes a while just to get
>to the point where you *can* type `n' or `k'.

I read this at 2400 BAUD, and even at 1200 baud it isn't that much
time to 'n' through a couple of articles. 2 minutes? 


>I feel that another strong argument in favor of the split is
>that it would eliminate the large volume of articles from
>people arguing---like this one, and the one to which it is a
>followup.

Well, if it is the bird watchers that want to have a split, and if
they are the ones that initiated it; then I see complaints about
people arguing over whether or not to split is unwarranted -- and
a little hypocritical.


In any news group, there are subjects within a subject that you are not
going to be interested in. We can have 20 bird discussions, and you
would probably still hit 'n' or 'k.'

There's no real reason to split.

Actually, I take it back. Let's have a rec.birds.whyweshouldorshouldnotsplit
group. Since this subject seems to match both the indoor and outdoor
discussions combined in number, I think that it is a more suitable
news group candidate. And then I wouldn't have to keep hitting 'n'
and 'k' to skip this topic all the time. (which I didn't do yesterday
and which is why I am now in it)

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