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From: bret@codonics.COM (Bret Orsburn)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Newsgroup Split (was Callbacks in class structure.)
Message-ID: <622@codonics.COM>
Date: 21 Dec 89 23:57:01 GMT
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Reply-To: bret@codonics.com (Bret Orsburn)
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In article <1929@syma.sussex.ac.uk> jonm@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Jonathan Meyer) writes:
>PS. This news group gets so many letters, I can't keep up. Do others feel that
>there should be a comp.windows.xt, as well as a comp.windows.x ?

This is the best run news group I'm aware of, thanks to the quick and
authoritative replies from the Bob Scheifler, the Consortium staff, and
the various members. (Keep up the good work, folks!)

Having said that, I think some thought should be given to a split. This group
is 90% high level client programming now. (Not by actual measure, but by
subjective impression) While I find much of this discussion interesting, and
would probably track it to some degree anyway, it makes for awful slow going
when one wants to track other aspects of X.

(It is easy to imagine a day very soon when less than 1% of the X community
 will care about Widgets and Callbacks.)

An x/xt split may indeed be warranted (client developers are in a much better
position to say ;-), but since someone left the door open a crack, let me toss
out my own pet theory: I think a forum for user/system administrator questions
may be in order.

There is already quite a lot of traffic in this subject area. I suspect
traffic would be greater, but for a degree of self-censorship that occurs
out of deference to the caliber of discussion in this group. Also, traffic
in these areas will grow very quickly as X is more widely adopted. (We are
all expecting explosive growth over the next year or two, are we not?)

Because such a group would handle more mundane questions, and a lot of
repeat questions, it would not require the level of monitoring currently
provided by the Consortium for this group. The quality (signal to noise
ratio) of the new group would not be as good as the current group, but I
think that such an outcome is inevitable as the X community expands. In
that regard, my suggestion could be viewed as a way to safeguard the
integrity of the current group.

Just a thought....
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