Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!jarthur!aqdata!sullivan From: sullivan@aqdata.uucp (Michael T. Sullivan) Newsgroups: news.groups Subject: Re: preliminary call for disussion: rec.arts.movies subgroups Message-ID: <1990Jan3.175530.26100@aqdata.uucp> Date: 3 Jan 90 17:55:30 GMT References: <500.259f456f@devsim.mdcbbs.com> Organization: aQdata, Inc. Western Region -- San Dimas, CA Lines: 18 From article <500.259f456f@devsim.mdcbbs.com>, by jmi@devsim.mdcbbs.com (JM Ivler - MDC - Douglas Aircraft - Long Beach, CA): > 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 > ... > the same movie in the same genre. The idea looks good on paper... but when it > gets implimented it turns to trash. That sorta was my point, actually. I meant that the "classic(al)" idea was even worse than the genre idea, which is about the closest thing to clearly defined as your going to get. -- Michael Sullivan uunet!jarthur.uucp!aqdata!sullivan aQdata, Inc. San Dimas, CA