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From: zinnato@nadc.nadc.navy.MIL
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re:  RFD:  comp.windows.x reorganisation
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Date: 21 May 91 14:26:48 GMT
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>I'm not sure if this has been discussed before in the past, but I'm
>throwing out the idea to see the response & feedback.  This is an
>informal RFD for the splitting of comp.windows.x.

Yes, this has been discussed before.

>However, splitting the group may solve the question of trying to wade
>thru the hundreds of messages to find a topic which interests me
>(and others).  Here is a possible reorganization of comp.windows.x:
>  blah..blah..etc....

The problem that some of us have (myself included) is that we don't have
a news feed here.  We rely on the mailing list (xpert) which relays
comp.windows.x to us.  If you were to break up comp.windows.x, we'd
wanna make sure that a mailing list gets set up for each of the groups
you propose.  Sure, the amount of news can be overwhelming sometimes...
I should know.  I have to wade through it to see if I have any important
mail waiting for me.  And admittedly, I am only interested in about 5% of
the mail I do get from xpert, but I need to look through almost every letter
to see if there's anything in it that I need.  

>Also, there may be a need to create a newsgroup relating to window managers.
>I would like to hear from people who feel the need of such a group.

There are mailing lists for most of these already set up... probably
newsgroups too ( again, I wouldn't know... I get it all in the mail ;^)

ron zinnato
zinnato@nadc.nadc.navy.mil