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From: rws@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Bob Scheifler)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: splitting comp.windows.x
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Date: 17 Mar 89 12:38:25 GMT
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    Would splitting up the list 
    to mirror some of the proposed newsgroup categories be such an 
    administrative chore as to be prohibitive as contrasted to the benefits 
    of breaking it up?

In a word, and as I indicated in a previous message, "Yes".  The staff who
are generally responsible for responding to xpert questions pretty much have
to read everything anyway, and those who don't have gotten pretty good at
scanning and clicking Delete on xmh.  We see very little personal benefit from
a split, and a significantly increased headache in maintaining the lists.