Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!news.cs.indiana.edu!widener!iggy.GW.Vitalink.COM!pacbell.com!tandem!zorch!xanthian From: xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: Another Amiga reorganization needed? Message-ID: <1991Jun19.070010.14792@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> Date: 19 Jun 91 07:00:10 GMT References: <8737@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU> <8749@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU> Organization: SF-Bay Public-Access Unix Lines: 38 barrett@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Dan Barrett) writes: > jpc@fct.unl.pt (Jose Pina Coelho) writes: >> barrett@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Dan Barrett) writes: >>> If you must break up .programmer, how about: >>> c.s.a.programmer.novice For beginner questions >>> c.s.a.programmer.wizards For really in depth stuff >>> c.s.a.programmer.misc For everything else >> Won't work. >> Every novice thinks the problem he just stump >> into is meant for a wizard, so csap.wizards will >> be full and the other two will have residual >> traffic. > It seems to work in the comp.unix hierarchy: > comp.unix.wizards > comp.unix.questions > That's where I go the idea. Wow did you miss out on a _great_ flamewar in news.groups! Comp.unix.wizards is the best newbie magnet on the net, and functions just as Jose suggests. It got replaced by comp.unix.internals, to try to cure the problem, and it became obvious that it also had been attracting another class of poster, the poseur unix wizard who needed an audience too ignorant to catch his gaffes. The poseurs screamed for their stage back, ran a really bogus vote, and got it. It went right back to being rife with newbie questions and bogus/trivial answers. Kent, the man from xanth.