Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!pyramid!octopus!vote From: vote@octopus.UUCP (Pete Holzmann) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Proposed comp.sys.ibm.pc.tech Summary: SOME kind of split is good. Message-ID: <230@octopus.UUCP> Date: 18 May 88 15:03:08 GMT References: <8837@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> Reply-To: vote@octopus.UUCP (Pete Holzmann) Organization: Octopus Enterprises, Cupertino CA Lines: 38 In article <8837@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> bobmon@iuvax.UUCP (RAMontante) writes: >Well, I am strongly OPPOSED to it! [ANY split of ANY kind] >... I DON'T want to have to chase all over the >freakin' net trying to find the article that followed up. >Yet Another Newsgroup will not cut down on net traffic... >It WILL clutter things up just that much further. > >Consider an analogy: We all like tree-structured directories, right? We all >like to break our files up into different groups. Well, the ultimate is to >break a directory up to the point where EACH and EVERY file is the sole leaf >of its own particular subdirectory. So why don't we all do this? Because too ^^^^^^^^^^^ >much of a good thing is a bad thing, that's why. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ THAT is precisely why we need some kind of split! From your line of reasoning, the ultimate is to combine all topics until EACH and EVERY article is contained in the same newsgroup. So why don't we all do this? Because when there is too much stuff in a newsgroup, it becomes *very* difficult to skip over the stuff we aren't interested in! We must kill the trash in order to find the articles on topics of interest to us. This is what is happening to the c.s.i.p group. When a group has too much traffic, it is time to split it up. That's the way the net works. I'd like to know: if you don't think there is enough traffic in c.s.i.p. to justify a split, how much traffic must there be before you are ready to split it? Or do you think we should un-split and go back to comp.sys.misc? [once upon a time, the pc discussions were not separated out from other small computers!] Pete -- OOO __| ___ Peter Holzmann, Octopus Enterprises OOOOOOO___/ _______ USPS: 19611 La Mar Court, Cupertino, CA 95014 OOOOO \___/ UUCP: {hpda,pyramid}!octopus!pete ___| \_____ Phone: 408/996-7746