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From: bert@arrakis.nl.mugnet.org (Bert Laverman)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: comp.os.minix splitup
Message-ID: <9104022946@arrakis.nl.mugnet.org>
Date: 2 Apr 91 20:38:58 GMT
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Al Donaldson wrote:
> My main objection to a split, any split, is that it requires posters
> to make a decision:  which group do I post to?  The answer is often "both." 
I should hope not in this case. Besides, as already _many_ people pointed
out, the object is clearly _not_ a splitup on subject, but rather a splitup
on _contents_. Even more people already drew the obvious conclusion that
everybody is going to read both groups anyway - I suppose mailing lists
would simply merge the two back into one to save setting up two separate
administrations - so there is no conceivable reason that I can think of
for anyone to make a crossposting. One group will be probably-save-all,
and the other read-first-decide-later.
  I thought the proposed names made this clear enough...

> [ explanation about simpleminded reasoning for double posting deleted ]
Again, this might have been the risk if we decided for a processor-based
split, but luckily we avoided that trap.

> If anyone [in the US??] wants an example, check out the misc.forsale,
> misc.forsale.computers, and misc.wanted kludge.  Sometimes I see the 
> same message *three* times over there.  Maybe we can handle this --
> maybe we're a lot smarter than those folks over there.. :-)
Or misc.misc. You don't need to be in the US to get that crap. :-)

> It's not a problem with the additional group.  I'll edit my .newsrc 
> so I can read both of them together, as I suspect everyone else will.
Unless you have a VSNR (Very Simple News Reader) you'll probably be
prompted for it anyway; Look Momma, no hands! ;-)

> The problem is that I have to read through probably a time and a half
> the traffic to get the same content.
I doubt that.

Greetings, Bert

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