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From: chuq@plaid.Sun.COM (Chuq Von Rospach)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,news.groups
Subject: Re: Splitting comp.sys.mac
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Date: 15 Jan 88 04:56:16 GMT
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>First off, this splitting of the newsgroup stuff is going to end up
>being a waste of time.  Anyone who subscribes to
>comp.sys.mac.hypercard wil notice that there haven't been more than 10
>postings a day and usually much fewer.  Perhaps, if people wanted to
>put stacks up, there would be a good place to do it quickly. (Frig the
>protocol.)

You ignore the fact that comp.sys.mac.hypercard is gatewayed into a similar
list in ARPAland, which simply would be impossible without a separate group.
Or that It is gatewayed up to Delphi. And, based on my digesting the stuff,
it's running about 60-70K a week, which is pretty good. They gave
net.wobegon a group and it was lucky to hit 50 messages a year.

>Secondly, I like the idea of having one newsgroup that I can get
>everything on.  Admittedly, if the volume gets too high, we may have
>to split, but now I doubt that is a problem.  

You're in the minority then. Most people I've talked to would prefer having
specific subjects split out, to make it easier to read things. Even with rn,
it becomes a pain to plow through 75 messages a day.

chuq