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From: frost@sdsu.UUCP (Richard Frost)
Newsgroups: misc.forsale,news.misc
Subject: Re: Killing instead of Splitting (LONG)
Summary: Split instead of Kill
Message-ID: <3580@sdsu.UUCP>
Date: 23 Mar 89 00:49:49 GMT
References: <1989Mar15.211043.25647@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu> <567@peritek.UUCP>
Organization: San Diego State University, Math/Sciences Dept.
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In article <1989Mar15.211043.25647@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu>, sarathy@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu (Rajiv Sarathy) writes:
> People have posted their thoughts on the matter of splitting this newsgroup
> into subgroups.  (For instance, I suggested auto, audio, house, comp, and misc).
> ...
>Again, by increasing the newsgroups, this should reduce the problems.  Using
>your suggestion of newsgroups including:
>
>	misc.forsale.auto,
>	misc.forsale.audio,
>	misc.forsale.house,
>	misc.forsale.comp, and
>	misc.forsale.misc,
>
>housing items will not appear in comp, although they may appear in misc
>(although not so many).  People who are not interested in houses will have
>significantly fewer articles to skip over, since they could avoid
>misc.foresale.house in it's entirety.
> ...
> 	But people will say, yes, but you might want to buy something you
> 	weren't in the market for.  True, but I don't want to look through
> 	a dozen ads for cars, when I KNOW I'm not going to buy a car.
>

Here, here !!   Break up this newsgroup into useable groups.  For those who
have the time to browse ALL the groups, let them subscribe to them all!

As for names, how about:

	forsale.auto
	forsale.audio
	forsale.comp
	forsale.elec	<< if you think there's been enough
	forsale.house
	forsale.misc


Richard Frost		E-mail:	sdsu!frost@ucsd.edu

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