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From: jones@uv4.eglin.af.mil (Calvin Jones, III)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: RE: Splitting c.s.a
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Date: 13 Nov 90 19:56:12 GMT
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Kent Paul Dolan <xanthian@zorch.sf-bay.org> writes:

> By the way, good news, the moderator of amiga-relay at udel.edu finally
> contacted me, and it is his plan to split amiga-relay into separate two
> way relays for each subgroup of c.s.a.*, which will remove the annoyance
> of games and other postings funneling back to c.s.a (in a meta-sense,
> since that group will no longer exist). 

This will certainly be appreciated by a *LOT* of current Relay 
subscribers!

> The only difficulty is deciding what to do about cross-postings. I hope
> that folks will follow my plan of holding discussions appropriate for
> many of the subgroups just in c.s.a.misc, rather than cross-posting the
> whole discussion, since the only plan that seems feasible for the relay
> is to send a copy of the cross-posted article to each group, which will
> be a lot of wasted email traffic if the cross-posting percent cannot be
> brought down from its current 5% level. 

Personally, I'd suggest that the relay should *NEVER* pass any 
cross-posted message through.  If it's really important enough to send 
to multiple groups, then post manually to additional groups, *AFTER* 
trying to get a reply from the most logical group.
 
   --- Cal