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From: ianr@mullian.ee.mu.oz.au (Ian ROWLANDS)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: Call for discussion: Amiga Newsgroup Reorganization
Summary: Must be done URGENTLY
Keywords: Don't take my word for it, read the figures
Message-ID: <2966@munnari.oz.au>
Date: 2 Jan 90 12:21:31 GMT
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    Here are some interesting figures for news in the last month :-

	comp.sys.amiga is   34th in popularity
			    4th in volume
			    doesn't rank in crossposting

    These figures indicate to me that comp.sys.amiga must be branched off and
broken down sooner than later. comp.sys.amiga.hardware is a start, and relieve
the traffic a bit, comp.sys.amiga.art (or some similar group) would help even
more. This would probably do for a start.
    For those who believe comp.sys.amiga should be left as is, COME OFF IT!
You obviously don't try to keep up with the group, and at least (usually) 80+
articles a day is a bit too much. It can take 1.5 hours to read, which will
have to be cut substantially when my course resumes. I doubt I would read all
the proposed groups, so it would cut my reading by a bit.

    comp.sys.amiga.hardware, come on down! Let's also try to break it down
further later.
			Ian

"My opinions only, but hereby placed in the public domain :-)  "


Ian Rowlands                      | "I don't want to be political, but you
Dept. of Electrical Engineering   |  can't trust the ALP!"
University of Melbourne           |                        -Joh Bjelke-Petersen
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