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From: bill@pslu1.psl.wisc.edu (Bill Roth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Breaking the group up.
Message-ID: <1991Mar21.173105.2755@pslu1.psl.wisc.edu>
Date: 21 Mar 91 17:31:05 GMT
References: <1991Mar21.144242.11655@ims.alaska.edu> <1991Mar21.161808.21001@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>
Reply-To: bill@pslu1.psl.wisc.edu (Bill Roth)
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In article <1991Mar21.161808.21001@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> punch@pleiades.cps.msu.edu (Bill Punch) writes:
>Isn't there someway to take a cue from the mac and amiga people and
>start breaking this newsgroup into some pieces PLEASE!. The traffic is
>getting quite heavy and I for one would appreciate some splitting of
>general/programming/software-dist/hardware type topics, or SOME kind of
>splitting anyway. What would it take to do this?

I would recommend the following breakdown:

comp.sys.next.os
comp.sys.next.apps
comp.sys.next.network
comp.sys.next.hardware
comp.sys.next.dimension
comp.sys.next.forsale
comp.sys.next.culture    (for speculation about SJ, etc.)
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Bill Roth,  University of Wisconsin Physical Sciences Laboratory
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