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From: rigney@uokvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: Re: net.foo and net.foo.expert - (nf)
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Date: Sun, 18-Dec-83 22:52:33 EST
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Posted: Sun Dec 18 22:52:33 1983
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uokvax!rigney    Dec 17 13:08:00 1983

Having two separate groups is valuable if there is likely to
be a group of experts who are ONLY interested in discussing
real problems, talking with other experts on the net, etc.
There is also a group who are interested in less hardcore
discussions, but who might like to eavesdrop on the experts.

The primary purpose of having separate groups is so that
busy experts will want to and be able to use the net, which
they are less likely to do if they have to spend considerable
time filtering out noise.

I feel that if something is thorny enough to go into expert,
it has no place in net.astro, and if something is placed in
net.astro, it is too simple to place in net.astro.expert.
I agree that if everyone's just going to post to both groups,
there's no reason to have both groups.  But I'm hoping that
matters will settle out, given a little time and incentive.

	Carl
	..!ctvax!uokvax!rigney