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From: andrew@teslab.lab.OZ (Andrew Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: CALL FOR LOCAL DISCUSSION: Split the c.s.a group more?
Message-ID: <1142@teslab.lab.OZ>
Date: 22 Oct 90 08:12:16 GMT
References: <1990Oct6.051722.7143@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> <1990Oct8.055618.27507@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
Reply-To: andrew@teslab.lab.oz.au (Andrew Phillips)
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In article <1990Oct8.055618.27507@IRO.UMontreal.CA> martin@IRO.UMontreal.CA (Daniel Martin) writes:
>  Your proposed groups hierachy is interestig, but too numerous.

I don't see how it could be TOO numerous.  The more meaningful groups
there are the better.  By this I mean groups that are distinct enough
to not have massive cross-posting and non-trivial enough to have an
active readership.

>...
>	c.s.a.classified ...

Should be c.s.a.forsale and c.s.a.wanted in line with the names for
other newsgroups.

>	c.s.a.media: (New) discussions regrouping sound, graphics, video, etc.

This group will be much too big even now.  Within a year or less I
can see that it would need to be split into at least three groups
(sound,midi,graphics,cad,video,multimedia,amigavision,...)

>	c.s.a.help: Good for messages like "DAVE: my mouse is broken" :-)

To be consistent with other group names c.s.a.questions would be better.

>	c.s.a.unix: Will be useful soon.  Can be put in c.s.a.help.

This should really be comp.unix.amix (or whatever Amiga UNIX is called).
This would correspond to groups like comp.unix.aux (for mac UNIX).

The mac hierarchy (comp.sys.mac.*) was recently split, making 11
different groups.  I think we could do with at least that number.  I
don't mean that we should try to outdo the mac groups just that they
have a similar volume of news.

Andrew.

BTW Someone has already created
c.s.a.(announce|multimedia|graphics|unix) here several days ago.
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