Xref: utzoo can.usrgroup:137 comp.org.usrgroup:50 Path: utzoo!mnetor!philmtl!ncc!myrias!alberta!oha!tony From: tony@oha.UUCP (Tony Olekshy) Newsgroups: can.usrgroup,comp.org.usrgroup Subject: Re: Who needs can.usrgroup? (I do, I do). Summary: Oh, leave it alone. Message-ID: <314@oha.UUCP> Date: 11 Jun 89 01:20:43 GMT References: <248aab57@fricker.uucp> <8906060555.AA01239@contact.UUCP> <2176@ubc-cs.UUCP> <372@moegate.UUCP> <608@aurora.AthabascaU.CA> <578@becker.UUCP> <579@becker.UUCP> <1989Jun9.152104.18526@tmsoft.uucp> <1989Jun9.145902.2110@eci386.uucp> <613377359.7187@ontmoh.UU Reply-To: tony@oha.UUCP Followup-To: can.usrgroup Distribution: can Organization: Olekshy Hoover & Associates Ltd., Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Lines: 30 In-Reply-To: Message <613377359.7187@ontmoh.UUCP> dated 9 Jun 89 06:36:00 GMT Return-Path: Our newsgroups file contains can.ai, can.general, can.jobs, can.politics, can.sun-stroke, can.usrgroup, and can.uucp. Ignoring ai and sun-stroke, it seems to me that a broad interpretation of the *names* of these groups is quite useful: can.jobs Canadian misc.jobs.{offers,resumes,misc}. can.politics Political issues of interest to Canadians. can.usrgroup User Group issues of interest to Canadians. can.uucp UUCP Network issues of interest to Canadians. can.general Other issues of interest to Canadians. When /usr/group/edmonton publishes its year-in-review article, I think it should go in can.usrgroup. If you take can.usrgroup away, we will have to post it to can.general. Similarly, can.usrgroup is the place to discuss user groups sharing visiting speakers, having BoF at various conferences, etc. The above groups seem to cover the traffic patterns quite nicely, except for one glaring omission: a place for technology questions, requests for help, and discussions. I suggest can.tech-help (no wait, that's awful), or equivalent, to cover things like operating systems, programming languages, hardware, etc. A final puzzler: although I haven't seen any traffic to justify it, why don't we have a can.class-ad for a Canadian misc.{wanted,forsale}? I'd check it every day, and unsubscribe from the misc.forsale group. I'm sure I could write more on this, but I'll leave it up to you to ask me to. Of, course, these are just my opinions, not those of /usr/group/edmonton. -- Yours, etc., Tony Olekshy (...!alberta!oha!tony or tony@oha.UUCP).