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- From: tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o)
- Subject: Re: Alternatives to splitting the newsgroup
- Message-ID: <1992Jul23.004637.6033@athena.mit.edu>
- Sender: daemon@athena.mit.edu (Mr Background)
- Reply-To: tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o)
- Organization: The Internet
- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 00:46:37 GMT
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- No, actually, it would be very hard support the new groups. There are
- two problems. The first is cross-posting. People do it a lot, no
- matter how you try to stop them, and with mail, you can't eliminate the
- duplicates without a lot of work, and then you have to decide where the
- article should go. The second problem is that having the digest track
- several groups would require a lot of changes to the perl script as it
- is currently written; the assumption is fairly strong that there is only
- one newsgroup. You could have separate digests for the different
- newsgroups, but that's really unwieldy, and it still doesn't solve the
- crossposting problem.
-
- Again, I really don't think the current traffic on the newsgroups
- warrant splitting the newsgroup. And if we implement my suggestion of
- draining off the newbie questions by directing them at a list of
- volunteers, such that each question goes to only one volunteer, I think
- we can further decrease volume on this list so that splitting it is
- really not justified.
-
- So far, just under 20 people have volunteered, and all of the responses
- which I've gotten is positive. If we can get a couple more volunteers,
- we can definitely get this service off the ground. So if you haven't
- signed up yet, and you like helping people, I ask you to please sign up!
- All you have to do is send me mail stating your email address and what
- areas you feel most comfortable answering questions.
-
- - Ted
-