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From: snowboots@cix.compulink.co.uk (Andrew Bray)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: comp.os.minix split up
Message-ID: <1991Apr02.040413PM.8984@demon.co.uk>
Date: 2 Apr 91 16:04:13 GMT
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There seems to be a lot of discussion on this subject, and ast for
one seems to be totally against it. However, I would argue that there
is one overriding argument in favour of some kind of split up:

Assistance for archive sites. The way that comp.os.minix runs at the
moment must create a lot of work for maintainers of archive sites -
unless they have the disk space to store everything, and if they
store everything the users of the archive sites then have the job of
sorting out the chaff, often from only the subject line (unless they
fetch everything). As archive sites are effectively a service to us
all, any help we can give must surely be welcome.

So there should either be two groups, one for general chitchat and
cries for help, and one of material suitable for archiving, or we
should place an Archive-as line or some such in any posting we think
should be archived, and any non conformant message doesn't get
archived.

All this IMHO,
        Andy.

snowboots@cix.compulink.co.uk