Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!tinman.cis.ohio-state.edu!bob From: bob@tinman.cis.ohio-state.edu (Bob Sutterfield) Newsgroups: news.groups,comp.windows.x Subject: Re: CALL FOR DISCUSSION -- splitting comp.windows.x (was: Is it time for Comp.windows.x.bugs?) (LONG) Message-ID: Date: 15 Mar 89 15:55:02 GMT References: <14051@bellcore.bellcore.com> <829@hydra.cs.Helsinki.FI> <14717@bellcore.bellcore.com> <564@peritek.UUCP> Sender: news@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Followup-To: news.groups,comp.windows.x Organization: The Ohio State University Dept of Computer & Information Science Lines: 31 In-reply-to: dig@peritek.UUCP's message of 15 Mar 89 04:03:04 GMT Xref: utzoo news.groups:8018 comp.windows.x:8682 In article <564@peritek.UUCP> dig@peritek.UUCP (Dave Gotwisner) writes: ...comp.windows.x should split it up... either this or make the news readers a lot more intelligent...I do not like to have to hit the n key 10 times to skip a discussion, I would rather type N once or twice... The more intelligent news reading software exists: use rn or xrn or GNUS or gnews, all of which have "kill" capability. For example, in rn, "k" kills a subject during this invocaton of the news reader, "K" kills it permanently by sticking your dis-preferences in a file. Please follow up to BOTH newsgroups (news.groups, comp.windows.x), as the discussion is relevant to both. Please remember that lots of folks (as RWS points out, the Consortium staff) still read comp.windows.x. as the xpert mailing list. Their responses will go (as his already has) to xpert/c.w.x and not to news.groups. Besides, folks running news 2.11.17 have to go to a non-trivial amount of work to have their followup sent to more than one group. The discussion period will last until the end of March (2 weeks + 3 days). If the Consortium staff, who have graciously consented to allow their mailing list to be gatewayed for the convenience of folks like us who prefer the news mechanisms, say that they don't want to split it up, then there's really not much discussion involved, and certainly not a vote! The Consortium staff would read whichever group is still gatewayed with the xpert mailing list, and the others would be altogether without the benefit of their wisdom, and vice versa.