Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!usc!ucsd!pacbell.com!tandem!zorch!xanthian From: xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: CALL FOR LOCAL DISCUSSION Revision 2: Split the c.s.a group more? Keywords: reply time limited Message-ID: <1990Oct30.022453.2043@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> Date: 30 Oct 90 02:24:53 GMT References: <1990Oct28.001448.25414@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> <6916@sugar.hackercorp.com> Organization: SF-Bay Public-Access Unix Lines: 55 peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes: >Merge announce and introduction. Huh? Group .announce is there to provide a _moderated_, _minimal_ group for the person who is too busy to follow the discussions but would like to know about important happenings, sort of like news.announce.newgroups compared to news.groups. The group to read if you have time to read just one. On the other hand .introduction is _the_ place to start interacting with the c.s.a group as a newbie; standard postings of c.s.a.* charters and FAQ and "Welcome to c.s.a", and to get beginners' questions answered. Dumping the newbie Q&A into .announce would destroy its utility to the busy reader and make it obnoxious. Putting a moderation timelag into the newbie Q&A would make it nearly useless as a forum. In brief, not just NO, but ... On another issue, Robin La Pasha (spelled without looking back, sorry), has put forward a strong email argument for splitting away .sound and .graphics from .multimedia. Seems the Amiga hypermedia mailing list maintained by Robin has a hundred eager readers/writers, many driven out by the volume of c.s.a, and .multimedia would quickly grow too big with their return if all the current topics are kept in the subroup. Robin's suggestion is to have the two indicated additional subgroups, and reserve .multimedia for discussions which truly blend the media. I think it's going to n.a.n that way; someone who is running a mailing list big enough to qualify as a newsgroup by itself is a "more equal pig" in Orwell's parlance, and gets a heavier "vote" in deciding the partition. Also, I have been reminded I seem to need to come up with full blown charters for each subgroup. Volunteer authors, don't ask, just email your effort to me for any subgroup you want to describe and I'll cut and paste the results and write the ones myself for which I get no input within a week or so. Again, moderation seems to be going well, Dan Zerkle and Jason L. Tibbitts III have agreed how to split .announce and .reviews, and how to cover for vacations, and Mike Meyer has also volunteered to moderate if one of the others can't make local arrangements. Hmmm. We could always cut the bandwidth by moderating _all_ the subgroups if we get enough moderators ... that would be an interesting net precedent. ;*( Hey, where did all the flames go? ;-) =^) /// It's Amiga /// for me: why Kent, the man from xanth. \\\/// settle for \XX/ anything less? -- Convener, ongoing comp.sys.amiga grand reorganization.