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- Path: sparky!uunet!decwrl!oracle!pyramid!infmx!news
- From: rfisel@informix.com
- Newsgroups: misc.forsale.computers
- Subject: Re: Split this group!!! (yes) Fix the Subjects instead!! (not)
- Message-ID: <1992Jul22.001110.3699@informix.com>
- Date: 22 Jul 92 00:11:10 GMT
- References: <1992Jul21.164213.41792@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
- Sender: news@informix.com (Usenet News)
- Reply-To: rfisel@informix.com
- Organization: Informix Software, Inc.
- Lines: 41
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- In article <1992Jul21.164213.41792@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
- jamiller@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:
- > In article <Jul.21.14.48.37.1992.4320@gandalf.rutgers.edu>,
- stella@gandalf.rutgers.edu (Ricky Suave Stella) writes:
- > > gnoer1@cc.swarthmore.edu (Geoff Noer) writes:
- > >
- > >>I think splitting this group into individual computer subcategories would
- > >>be a good idea. The biggest problem is hardware such as hard disks which
- > >>might be appropriate to several subcategories. Solution(s) anybody?
- > >
- > >
- > > Yeah, simply leave it the way it is. Someone already said it... hardware
- > > such as hard disks, modems, memory, etc would be cross posted into the
- > > several groups. It would take longer to read the posts and it woudl
- > > take more bandwidht...
- > >
- > >
- > > I also vote for a standarization (sp?) in the headers so our kill files can
- > > do a good job. ie, <FORSALE> <WANTED> <TRADE> and if system dependent then
- > > <IBM> <MAC> <AMIGA> <SUN> <ATARI>
- > >
- > > Simple...
- > >
-
- I doubt this header fix will help much. Most sellers here are first-time
- posters to this group, I assume, but perhaps they at least know the general
- conventions of the net. They won't know these header conventions, even if they
- are "power" news-readers. The multiple group approach is the only
- self-documenting one. Trust me, I'm a tech writer...
-
- It's true a split might not help, because some posters are ignorant of the ways
- of the entire net (like those who post cars for sale in this group), but it
- would help for the net-wise.
-
- I vote for a split in the group by platform (mac, ibm-compatible, amiga, etc.)
- and by type (disk, cpu, misc, printer, modem).
-
- Rick Fisel
- opinionated employee of opinionless
- Informix Software
- I prefer replies by email.
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