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From: lemke@radius.com (Steve Lemke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next,news.groups
Subject: Re: split up comp.sys.next (PLEASE!!)
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Date: 24 Apr 91 23:56:51 GMT
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nates@sporobolus.NREL.ColoState.EDU (Nate Sammons) writes:

>  Since there are over a hundred messages per day going through good 'ol
>comp.sys.next   what about splitting it into several sub-groups like
>comp.sys.next.prog  and comp.sys.next.misc  or something like that...

Geez, I'm glad I found your messages in ALL THE OTHER TRAFFIC in comp.sys.next
today.  I was just about to use good old Pnews to post a NEW message of my own
suggesting the very same thing!!  Then I saw your message.

Not that this should have any other implications :-) but...
I suggest following what the comp.sys.mac group did - split into several
subgroups.  We could create the following groups:

comp.sys.next.announce	Important notices for NeXT users. (Moderated)
comp.sys.next.apps	Discussions of NeXT applications.
comp.sys.next.comm	Discussion of NeXT communications.
comp.sys.next.hardware	NeXT hardware issues & discussions.
comp.sys.next.misc	General discussions about the NeXT.
comp.sys.next.programmer Discussion by people programming the NeXT.
comp.sys.next.system	Discussions of NeXT system software.
comp.sys.next.wanted	Postings of "I want XYZ for my NeXT."

Perhaps a better name could be suggested for "comp.sys.next.system", but I
think it should stay in the "comp.sys.next" hierarchy rather than be shoved
off to something like "comp.unix.next" (just as "comp.sys.mac.system" was not
called "comp.os.mac").

I have never created a group before, and don't know what the proper procedures
etc. are for discussion and voting, but I move that this be taken as the
beginning of a discussion, and perhaps we should also start cross-posting to
news.groups?  Does someone with newsgroup creation experience want to take
over the discussion from here?

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