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From: merlin@hqda-ai.UUCP (David S. Hayes)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc,comp.sys.ibm.pc,news.groups
Subject: Re: Creation of comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Message-ID: <1276@hqda-ai.UUCP>
Date: 19 Mar 88 16:16:38 GMT
References: <5551@swan.ulowell.edu>
Organization: Army AI Center, Pentagon
Lines: 26
Summary: We don't need *another* discussion group.
	 We need the discussion out of this group.

In article <5551@swan.ulowell.edu>, Brian O'Neill writes:
> 	Name of group: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
> 	Purpose: To create an unmoderated forum for discussion about
>              	 binaries posted to comp.binaries.ibm.pc, hopefully
> 		 relieving traffic through comp.sys.ibm.pc, which will be
> 		 maintained for discussions on the technical aspects of IBM
> 		 systems.

     Creation of yet another group will not relieve the discussion
present in comp.binaries.ibm.pc.  The easiest thing for people to
do when reading an interesting article is to hit the 'followup'
key.  The followups automatically go to the same group.  To send
the followup to a different group (comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d) would
require that people edit their newsgroup lines.  Numerous
experiences, in this group and many others, teaches us that people
are too lazy to do this.

     I fear that this new group would not achieve its purpose,
because it is dependent on everyone on the net actively doing
something.  A better solution would be to moderate
comp.binaries.ibm.pc.  The moderator would be flooded with
followups, but could redirect them to some other group, like
comp.sys.ibm.pc.
-- 
David S. Hayes, The Merlin of Avalon	PhoneNet:  (202) 694-6900
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