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From: brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton)
Newsgroups: news.groups,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: comp.sys.ibm.pc.{tech,programmer,...}
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Date: 4 Jan 90 17:15:31 GMT
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Comp.sys.ibm.pc is the most active group on the net -- which is to say that
it has perhaps the greatest product of readers and articles -- more time is
spent on it than any other.

I do not believe it should be split apart haphazardly, with "let's take
a group off here, let's take a group off there." 

This group could easily be split into about 6 groups or more.  Any online
service has *dozens* of categories for discussion of IBM PC related stuff,
USENET has just a couple.

The creation of several groups can't easily be done by vote.  The vote would
be hairy and would be unlikely to provide a consistent result.

I propose instead that somebody become group czar *just* for the ibm.pc
groups.  This czar would create and remove groups as desired, and would
be charged at first with creating 5-6 subgroups, including one for
software development, and one for 'industry' issues like lawsuits, ethics,
people etc.

If I end up being that volunteer, my preliminary list would look like
			hardware
				display
				mass storage
			software
				development
			industry
			communications

I would invite comments, but the final decision, if I were in this role,
would be mine.
-- 
Brad Templeton, ClariNet Communications Corp. -- Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473