Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!munnari.oz.au!mullian!ianr From: ianr@mullian.ee.mu.oz.au (Ian ROWLANDS) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: CALL FOR LOCAL DISCUSSION: Split the c.s.a group more? Message-ID: <5764@munnari.oz.au> Date: 15 Oct 90 13:21:34 GMT References: <1990Oct6.051722.7143@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> <1990Oct8.055618.27507@IRO.UMontreal.CA> <6802@sugar.hackercorp.com> Sender: news@cs.mu.oz.au Reply-To: ianr@mullian.ee.mu.OZ.AU (Ian ROWLANDS) Organization: Dept. of Electrical Engineering, University of Melbourne Lines: 42 Gee, the references line is getting long! In article <6802@sugar.hackercorp.com> peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes: >In article limonce@pilot.njin.net (Tom Limoncelli) writes: >> comp.sys.amiga.misc Replace comp.sys.amiga >> comp.sys.amiga.software.dev For programmers (replaces comp.sys.amiga.tech) > >comp.sys.amiga.programmer. Why create a new level? If you create comp.sys.amiga.programmer, what happens to c.s.a.tech? Do you just leave it? Do you remove it? Do you alias it to the new group and remove it some time later? >> comp.sys.amiga.software For the users >> comp.sys.amiga.games Same as it is now >> comp.sys.amiga.hardware Same as it is now >comp.sys.amiga.forsale, too. It might not be that high, but forsale and >wanted messages have a high irritation value. .forsale? .wanted? .trade? A .forsale and .wanted group is no use. Look what has happened to misc.forsale.computers, misc.forsale, misc.wanted. Everybody just crossposts to all three with computer equipment, plus the computer group(s) that may be interested. With the above group, it just means another group added to the crossposting list and hence is useless (as you will still read the damn forsale messages). While I'm on the subject, anybody know how to make a killfile entry to kill all messages that have 'for sale' in them, or just 'sale'? >And I think a .rumors or .futures group would absorb several of your >categories and put it into the top few. With all these sub-groups, rumours and futures will be the only thing left to discuss in the main group. Ian Ian Rowlands | Work : ianr@mullian.ee.mu.oz.au Dept. of Electrical Engineering, | OR munnari!mullian!ianr@uunet.uu.net (including Computer Science) | Home : ianr@gpark.pub.uu.oz.au (soon) University of Melbourne | OR munnari!labtam!eyrie!gpark!ianr@uunet