Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!ucla-cs!math.ucla.edu!pico!barry From: barry@pico.math.ucla.edu (Barry Merriman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Call for vote: SPLIT GROUP! Keywords: split, next, group Message-ID: <1077@kaos.MATH.UCLA.EDU> Date: 13 Feb 91 16:33:38 GMT References: <24674@neptune.inf.ethz.ch> Sender: news@MATH.UCLA.EDU Organization: UCLA Dept. of Math, UCLA Inst. for Fusion and Plasma Research Lines: 33 In article <24674@neptune.inf.ethz.ch> gfankhau@iiic.ethz.ch (George Fankhauser) writes: > >comp.sys.next.user (for /Apps ...) >comp.sys.next.programmer >comp.sys.next.sysadm (instead of network) > >wouldn't that be enough? No, I think you need at least one group aimed mainly at miscellaneous discussion---that is roughly a third of the content of the current group, and the source of most of the pointless threads, like "my OS is better than your GUI" (or whatever). I think those are good groups, though maybe .user -> .apps, and add a .talk or .discuss. As far as folks who want to wait to split: if you believe NeXT is going to be succesful, then you know a split is inevitable, just as for mac, amiga, sun, pc, etc. We may as well do it just prior to the flood of NeXT deliveries over the next 6 months---traffic is already heavy enough to give a good representation of the various class of posts. Soon I think people will be begging for a comp.sys.next.group_splitting_proposals as the N^2 effect kicks in :-) -- Barry Merriman UCLA Dept. of Math UCLA Inst. for Fusion and Plasma Research barry@math.ucla.edu (Internet)