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From: barry@pico.math.ucla.edu (Barry Merriman)
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Subject: Re: Call for vote: SPLIT GROUP!
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Date: 13 Feb 91 16:20:33 GMT
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In article <EbiAXsa00UzxI4eqRg@andrew.cmu.edu> ls1i+@andrew.cmu.edu (Leonard John Schultz) writes:
>How about a call
>for votes on spliting the bboard into subgroups of the more common type
>of postings.
>
>comp.sys.next.apps
>comp.sys.next.hardware
>comp.sys.next.music
>comp.sys.next.mach(or unix)
>comp.sys.next.networking
>comp.sys.next.programming


I agree its time for a split---but how about a sequence of
bifurcations as needed, rather than splintering all at once.
The first bifurcation, it seems, would be

comp.sys.next.technical_aspects_of_apps,_system_admin_and_hardware
comp.sys.next.general_discussions_of_next_related_issues

although I think the naming requires a bit more work.:-)

All the OS,GUI,Editor,Computer,Keyboard,Mouse-wars could go in the
latter, as well as the ``Should I buy a Next'' type queries.

Anyway, I say split now! comp.sys.next is getting ~ 100 posts a day,
and this number will grow like N^2, where N is the number of
next users on the net (since posts represent N people interacting
with eachother---roughly an N^2 effect).



--
Barry Merriman
UCLA Dept. of Math
UCLA Inst. for Fusion and Plasma Research
barry@math.ucla.edu (Internet)