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From: poffen@molehill (Russ Poffenberger)
Newsgroups: news.groups,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: comp.sys.ibm.pc.{tech,programmer,...}
Message-ID: <1990Jan5.175346.16012@sj.ate.slb.com>
Date: 5 Jan 90 17:53:46 GMT
References: <:EXZGDny2@ficc.uu.net> <25A26459.27214@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca> <376@sixhub.UUCP> <71634@looking.on.ca>
Reply-To: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger)
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In article <71634@looking.on.ca> brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton) writes:
>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.
>-- 

I can think of only one group to split c.s.i.p into, and that would be to
create comp.sys.ibm.pc.flame.wars. I am getting sick of reading this newsgroup
to try and find useful information, or get help, only to find 50% of the
bandwidth taken by MAC vs PC flame wars. This is getting VERY ridiculous. Take
these wars to alt.flame, or e-mail your flame wars to each other.

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