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From: shill@post.its.mcw.edu (Susan J. Hill MD)
Newsgroups: alt.games.doom
Subject: Re: SPLIT DOOM GROUP: proposal
Date: 30 Aug 1994 19:00:53 -0500
Organization: Medical College of Wisconsin; Milwaukee Wisconsin
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Hardball (hardball@io.com) wrote:
: Vic Harnett (Vic_Harnett@mindlink.bc.ca) wrote:
: : I think the group should be split into the groups mentioned. I don't
: : really want to get 50 messages a day asking about IDDQD, How to run a wad,
: : and where to get quake. Maybe you like to get all those messages and hit K
: : all the time, but some of us do have a life, and have enough infojunk to
: : sort through as it is.
: Hoo-ray, we get MORE Doom newsgroups with MORE junk messages on
: them. So over in alt.games.doom.newplayers they've got about 600
: messages there in the 2 months or so that it's been there. Wow. That
: has REALLY helped lower the bandwidth on alt.games.doom.
: And who's to say the topics of discussion won't stray away from
: their newsgroup's topic? And what if a topic comes up that is not in any
: of the branch groups? Do we then creat ANOTHER newsgroup and constantly
: tell others to take their wad/editor/quake/FAQ/matches/blah-blah-blah
: questions over to another newsgroup?
The thing about this discussion that surprises me is how many people think
that _creating_ spin-off groups like .announce or .newbie is a good idea,
then are surprised that these groups _already exist_ but they don't get
them. So what's the point? If the traffic in .newplayers has really been
that low, further splits seem similarly pointless. I'd rather skim through
all the threads in one place than slog through the same useless crap 5 or 6
times. (You know the PENIS SIZE thread would have been in all the groups,
right?)
Having said that, the addition of an .editing newsgroup seems like a useable
addition to the existing ones (a.g.d, .newbie, .announce, and a.g.quake).
Actually, it looks like the existing structure plus an .editing group pretty
much equals Mr. Atkins' (unquoted) proposal, doesn't it?
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Chris Hill, not Susan
Our account just looks remarkably similar.