Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!elroy!cit-vax!mangler
From: mangler@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu (Don Speck)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: Killing instead of Splitting (LONG)
Summary: misc.forsale.comp was proposed a year ago
Message-ID: <10151@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu>
Date: 26 Mar 89 07:03:21 GMT
References: <1989Mar15.211043.25647@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu> <567@peritek.UUCP> <3580@sdsu.UUCP>
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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).

misc.forsale.comp was proposed a year ago.  Response in the month-long
comments period was voluminous.  The vote failed (approximately 50 Yes
to 13 No) due to complete lack of electioneering on my part, and I never
got around to posting the results.

Many people objected that the traffic didn't warrant a split.

A few suggested a combined wanted/forsale group patterned after ba.market.

Three people suggested reminding people to use Distribution: headers.

Nigel Horne (in the U.K.) suggested usa.forsale.computers.

rsalz@pineapple.bbn.com said:
> Yeah, I guess so; let's just hope it doesn't get cluttered with
> "buy my c64" or ads from 3rd party folks.

George Robbins said (last year!):
> I floated this suggestion a year ago, and got nary a peep.