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From: regoli@silver.bacs.indiana.edu (michael regoli)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: New Groups
Message-ID: <3046@silver.bacs.indiana.edu>
Date: 24 Jan 89 14:25:47 GMT
References: <8090009@hpsemc.HP.COM> <421@madnix.UUCP>
Reply-To: regoli@silver.UUCP (michael regoli)
Organization: Indiana University BACS, Bloomington
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In article <421@madnix.UUCP> rat@madnix.UUCP (David Douthitt) writes:
| From article <8090009@hpsemc.HP.COM>, by gph@hpsemc.HP.COM (Paul Houtz):
| 
| | From reading this group, you would think it's the only one that
| | exists for the IBM PC.
| | 
| |   My suggestion is that we split it into several groups:
| | 
| |      1.  comp.sys.ibmpc.turboc
| |      2.  comp.sys.ibmpc.os2
| |      3.  comp.sys.ibmpc.turbopascal
| |      4.  comp.sys.ibmpc.applications
| |      5.  comp.sys.ibmpc.hardwarwe
| |      6.  comp.sys.ibmpc.clones
| | 
| |   I don't know.  Maybe these groups stink.  Any other suggestions?

well, as has been mentioned, there are already language groups to
cover the above topics: comp.lang.c and comp.lang.pascal.

however, splitting this "ibm.pc" newsgroup into applications,
hardware, and clones will do nothing but encourage cross-postings.  (a
prime example is rec.autos and rec.autos.tech: ninety percent of the
postings to one group can be found in the other.)

maybe the best way to go is "comp.sys.micro.software" and
"comp.sys.micro.hardware."  (note the deletion of the catch-all
"ibm.pc.") *then* perhaps, "comp.sys.micro.hardware.ibm",
"comp...hardware.clones", etc...

this would involve quite a bit of work, though.  think about the other
"micro" groups: comp.sys.tandy, comp.sys.zenith.z100, etc.  we could
incorporate them into comp.sys.micro.tandy, comp.sys.micro.zenith.

i'm probably way off base here but unless a *major* reorganization takes
place within this group, we're just asking to be choked to death by
a flood of cross-postings.

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                        |  michael regoli
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                        |  regoli@silver.bacs.indiana.edu
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