Xref: utzoo comp.sys.amiga:69454 news.groups:24580 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!crdgw1!rpi!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!apple!vsi1!zorch!xanthian From: xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,news.groups Subject: Re: CALL FOR LOCAL DISCUSSION: Split the c.s.a group more? Message-ID: <1990Oct19.170727.8309@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> Date: 19 Oct 90 17:07:27 GMT References: <6810@sugar.hackercorp.com> Organization: SF-Bay Public-Access Unix Lines: 46 limonce@pilot.njin.net (Tom Limoncelli) writes: >[This is being cross-posted to news.groups... because newsgroup-type >stuff should be.] Wonderful. Now, while we still have no idea what we want to propose, you've called the whole damn net down on our heads with a half baked excerpt of the unformed proposal. I PUT "LOCAL DISCUSSION " IN THE THREAD TITLE FOR A REASON! Please, when you don't know what you're doing, don't do it. Now I've got to cross-post in turn, to try to repair the damage: NEWS.GROUPS: There is a preliminary discussion going on in comp.sys.amiga about partitioning the newsgroup, in response to many complaints from sysops having to expire the group in 1/3rd normal time to avoid breaking news software, from people who receive the group by email relay, and have no choice but to slog through it article by article, and from the general readership, many of whom are overwhelmed. To save exposing the whole net to an ungelled proposal in news.groups, the boring and not of general interest "should we really split the group, what groups should we make, and what should we name them" parts of the discussion is taking place locally in comp.sys.amiga until there is a coherent proposal to put forth, as per standard net practice. This has already spared you 160 KBytes of commentary; comp.sys.amiga has a _huge_ readership/postership. I'm in charge of the reorganization (per my promise a couple of months back while running the comp.sys.amiga.games vote), in the same sense in which Chip did the comp.unix reorganization. Anybody wants to flame me for the way I'm doing this, my mailbox is listed below; keep it off the net. I have scheduled a CFD to news.announce.newgroups (w/ a crosspost to news.groups) for 1 Nov 1990, at which point you are all welcome to stomp up and down on things to your hearts' content. Until then, a little peace and quiet while I get things in order would be much appreciated, as would just ignoring any hyperenthusiastic cross-posts, forged newgroup messages, and other newbie idiocy. Your cooperation will be delightfully accepted. Kent, the man from xanth.