Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!inria!chorus!ferry
From: ferry@chorus.fr (Ferry de Jong)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: What all comp.sys.amiga.**** readers should know.
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Date: 29 Oct 90 15:49:43 GMT
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Hello fellow Amiga-users,

It took me a long time to make the decision to really post this article, but
I have to say this with pain in my heart:

	     You are making a mess out of the groups


The following may overlap a lot of the local call for discussion to split
the groups but it has a quite different approach. I think it isn't needed to
create more groups and that we can manage with the current ones if we use them
wisely. Next are a few short paragraphs that describe, in my opinion, what is 
happening in comp.sys.amiga.**** and causes of the call for more groups.

Posting in several groups:

There are people who post one article in several comp.sys.amiga.**** groups. I
think this is absolutely unnecessary. People who don't read the sub-group where
the article is posted have a reason for this and posting it in several groups
doesn't increase the number of responses. At least not the interesting ones.

Posting in the wrong group:

It is hard to believe that so many people are able to pick exactly the wrong
newsgroup to post something. Look at the next four articles I found today in
comp.sys.amiga and belong in a different group. (No personal hard feeling
against the posters)

10940) For sale Amiga 2000. 80 Mb disk. 2Mb ram ~ 28 (christopher kushmerick)
-----  Should be in misc.forsale.computers, shouldn't it?
10950) Empire...(2.2 or whatever) ~ 22 (++ Q ++)
-----  Should be in comp.sys.amiga.games, shouldn't it?
10954) Complete Amiga 1000 system 4 sale ~ 17 (Keith Barrett)
-----  Should be in misc.forsale.computers, shouldn't it?
10962) Xetec CD-ROM drive ~ 111 (Robin C. LaPasha)
-----  Should be in comp.sys.amiga.hardware, shouldn't it?

Think, before you post. It isn't difficult to pick the right group.

Posting useless articles:

People who post articles saying 'Thanks for the responses' or send flames to
the author of a previous article are not very social. It appears to me they
just do that to 'get a kick out of' knowing a lot of people will read *their*
article. All I can say to them is: Grow up, try to be mature.


Well that's all I have to say for now. (Yes, I'm trying to be brief and not
to force people to read a lot of rubbish before they get the information.)

CONCLUSIONS

Post only in *ONE* comp.amiga.**** newsgroup.

Post to only *one* of the following groups according to the article's contents
comp.sys.amiga.games	Everything about games, including modem stuff.
comp.sys.amiga.hardware	Everything about add-ons, and problems probably
			caused by the machine's hardware.
comp.sys.amiga.tech	All about programming that is amiga-dependant and
			other problems that are software related.
comp.sys.amiga		Discussions about C=, general (FTP) questions and
			discussions.

Please only post something if it is important/interesting. If we all reduce
the number of messages there is a big chance that it's worth reading again
and the right people will read the right messages so you get responses from
people that really know something about the subject.

Use e-mail to respond to *easy* problems to reduce the traffic in the groups.
The easy questions are often answered by a lot of people an are of little
interest to the majority of group-readers so use up a lot of unnecessary
space in the groups.
Being poster of an article it is often a good idea to ask for e-mail response
and to suggest to post a SUMMARY later on for general enlightment about the
subject.

Try to use meaningful names for your articles.

 ___  ___  ___   ___  _  _     _    _
(  _)(  _)(  ,) (  ,)( \/ ) | ( \/\/ )riting software takes twice as long
 ) _) ) _) )  \  )  \ \  /  |  \    /        as you expect it to take...
(_)  (___)(_)\_)(_)\_)(_/   |   \/\/     Even if you keep this in mind!
e-mail: ferry@chorus.fr