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From: jmi@devsim.mdcbbs.com (JM Ivler - MDC - Douglas Aircraft - Long Beach, CA)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: preliminary call for disussion: rec.arts.movies subgroups
Message-ID: <500.259f456f@devsim.mdcbbs.com>
Date: 1 Jan 90 11:56:31 GMT
References: <50113@bbn.COM> <1989Dec27.211218.18630@aqdata.uucp>
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In article <1989Dec27.211218.18630@aqdata.uucp>, sullivan@aqdata.uucp (Michael T. Sullivan) writes:
> 
> If you want to reduce traffic, I think the only chance you have is
> to split things up by genre (r.a.m.foreign-lang, r.a.m.horror, etc.).

Michael... NO!... Please... as an example of the confusion that this would lead 
to... take "BTTF-II" was it Sci-fi/Fantasy or was it Action/adventure or was it 
Humorous (three possible genre under your system). I could see posts for it 
ending up in all three. Splits like this don't work because people don't see 
the same movie in the same genre. The idea looks good on paper... but when it 
gets implimented it turns to trash. 

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