Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!seismo!dimacs.rutgers.edu!rutgers!mcnc!rti!dg-rtp!ellerbe!poirier From: poirier@ellerbe.rtp.dg.com (Charles Poirier) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Splitting comp.sys.amiga Summary: Yes to split... No to gripes... Message-ID: <1990Oct25.015033.4978@dg-rtp.dg.com> Date: 25 Oct 90 01:50:33 GMT References: Sender: usenet@dg-rtp.dg.com (Usenet Administration) Organization: Data General Corporation. RTP, NC. Lines: 57 In article sk2x+@andrew.cmu.edu (Sun Kun Kim) writes: >Well, I think we only need to have one more group called >comp.sys.amiga.gripes and it would just solve everyone's problems. If people used it. But they wouldn't. Flamers (and, to a lesser extent, mere gripers) usually want the widest possible audience. One man's gripe is another man's earth-shaking crusade of righteousness. > It is not so much of a problem that people talk about unix and multimedia. Right, normally one waits until there is a specific need to split off excessive traffic. There is not *currently* a need for these two you have singled out. But with Amigavision currently hitting the mailboxes, and Amiga Unix (by some accounts) just around the corner, the imminent need for these groups is predictable. And since such a major reorg is under consideration anyway, it seems sensible to toss these in now and save trouble later. >It would just be a waste. I mean, just how many messages do you see >that are dealing with all those topics that we are considering?? If you >think it was a pain to look at the messages now, I think splitting the >group will cause MORE problems than solving. The total traffic will increase, true. But the amount of traffic that you can unsubscribe to will more than make up for it. The major problems as I see them are 1) people can't stay current on the main group, and 2) the huge directory used to store the main group is becoming impossible to manage, and its size is slowing down access to every file therein. Splitting will help both problems. >If I recall correctly, >more than 50% of the messages are flames to people (most notably Mark >Barrett as well as anti-MB's) Most of which would fall nicely into c.s.a.compare. >and flames to Commodore about NOT doing their jobs. Ditto, and/or into c.s.a.misc, and there are fewer of these. >One thing that I would like to remind people about is that there is a >thing called E-mail for your personal gripes and flames. Yes. This is a good admonition. It shows up in every newsgroup about once a week, though, and it does no good. There is lots of flamage, there always has been, and there always will be. Since (as I have claimed) it also does no good to try to seat the flamage at the back of the bus, the best we can do is try to compartmentalize the non-flamage into specific interest groups. This way, one can turn off the c.s.a.misc and/or c.s.a.compare functions, when the flamage starts to pile up, and still find useful news. With the current setup, most people (I expect) feel they would miss too much by turning off the "main" group. > Sun... Cheers, Charles Poirier poirier@dg-rtp.dg.com