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From: khearn@polyslo.UUCP (keith hearn)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.bugs
Subject: Re:  Official newsgroup proposal: comp.sources.games.bugs
Summary: Volume is the reason
Message-ID: <919@polyslo.UUCP>
Date: 4 Jan 88 01:19:35 GMT
References: <10933@brl-adm.ARPA>
Reply-To: khearn@polyslo.UUCP (Keith Hearn)
Organization: Cal Poly State Univ,CSC Dept,San Luis Obispo,CA 93407
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In article <10933@brl-adm.ARPA> cosell@WILMA.BBN.COM (Bernie Cosell) writes:
>I'm registering my vote properly, but I wanted to make a public comment:
>
>I don't like think suggestion.  There are a BUNCH of "sources"
>groups (comp.sources, comp.sources.misc, comp.sources.amiga, etc).  I was
>under the impression that comp.sources.bugs was the common bug channel
>for them ALL.  While I understand that "games" are a sensitive matter
>at some sites, I am unpersuaded by Joe's arguments that that ONEs bugs
>feed should be separated from all of the others.  I think that either
>we should move to have EVERY sources group have its own .bugs and .d
>feeds (which I think would be just fine), or we should leave things as
>they are.
>   __
>  /  )                              Bernie Cosell
> /--<  _  __  __   o _              BBN Labs, Cambridge, MA 02238
>/___/_(<_/ (_/) )_(_(<_             cosell@bbn.com

Bernie,
 The reason for a separate newsgroup for games bugs is simply volume. Lately,
there has been almost as many articles on bugs in games (one or two in 
particular) posted as there have been articles for everything else combined! 
people who aren't interested in games have to wade through the game bugs, and
those of us who are interested in games have to wade through the non-game bugs.
I am responsible for most of the game maintanence at this site, and it would
make my job much easier if the game bugs were in their own group. If other 
special intrest source groups start creating the volume of bug reports/fixes 
that games do, then i would support separate groups for their bugs. As for why
each source group can't have it's own .bug and .d group, i don't know exactly
why, but the net.gods prefer to keep the number of group down as much as
possible (It's a good reason, i just can't recall it right now).

Keith Hearn
"games"
polyslo

Dislcaimer: The opinions atated above are mine and do not necessarily reflect
those of Cal Poly, its Computer Science Department, or its faculty or staff.


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