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From: woods@ncar.ucar.edu (Greg Woods)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics,news.groups
Subject: Re: no newuser group is required
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Date: 5 Apr 88 04:11:43 GMT
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Reply-To: woods@handies.UCAR.EDU (Greg Woods)
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In article <812@zippy.eecs.umich.edu> spencer@spline.eecs.umich.edu (Spencer W. Thomas) writes:
>
>I beg to differ.  The division of the unix-wizards newsgroup into
>subgroups for exactly this reason has, as far as I know, been quite
>successful.

   The original division of the UNIX group into .wizards and .questions
was, in my opinion, not at all successful. FURTHER divisions based on
subclasses of UNIX were much more successful (e.g. .ultrix, .microport,
etc.). A newusers group won't work. If you were a beginner and wanted
an answer to your question, where would you look for it? Simple: where
the experts are. Trying to keep certain classes of posters out of
a group that their postings are appropriate for by creating another
group just for a certain class of poster does NOT work. It's been tried;
with comp.unix.questions, net.women.only, and net.astro.expert. NONE of
these succeeded in keeping the neophytes out of the expert group. (Yes, I
know the neophye/expert analogy isn't quite appropriate for the net.women
example, but I'm sure you get the picture).

--Greg