Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!van-bc!rsoft!mindlink!a186
From: a186@mindlink.UUCP (Harvey Taylor)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: CALL FOR LOCAL DISCUSSION: Split the c.s.a group more?
Message-ID: <3589@mindlink.UUCP>
Date: 18 Oct 90 23:13:46 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
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    [ My $.02 for the line eater ]

    I think we should leave c.s.a.games, c.s.a.hardware & c.s.a.tech
 unchanged cause they ain't broke.

        comp.sys.amiga.hardware     [unchanged]
        comp.sys.amiga.games        [unchanged]
        comp.sys.amiga.tech         [unchanged]

 rmgroup c.s.a and create

        comp.sys.amiga.misc
        comp.sys.amiga.applications
        comp.sys.amiga.trade        [or .swap or .sale]
        comp.sys.amiga.multimedia
        comp.sys.amiga.announce     [moderated]
        comp.sys.amiga.review       [moderated]

        comp.unix.amiga             [ after it is released ;-)]


    I don't think we need any more net.cops, official or not.


    There is another aspect I would like to bring up. On MindLink,
 Usenet appears as a regular BBS that just happens to have a message
 counter in the hundreds of thousands. I think we are the victims of
 some automated crossposting. I get the impression that some people's
 messages are put into every c.s.a.#? group by some intermediate node.
 I think I read somewhere this is done by a gate from the internet.
    [eg. Not to pick on you, but Ralph Seguin, we get every one of your
 messages in c.s.a.h, c.s.a & c.s.a.t. Is this by your design? Or is it
 an intermediate gate as I surmise?]
    If we do do the split, perhaps some care will have to be taken to
 make such routing software cognizant of the appropriate groups? To have
 a subset of messages copied into 7 or 10 groups would be ... difficult.
    -harvey

    "In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant."
                                                         -de Gaulle
      Harvey Taylor      Meta Media Productions
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