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- From: rcox@cad625.intel.edu (Richard Cox)
- Newsgroups: misc.forsale.computers
- Subject: SPLIT THIS GROUP
- Message-ID: <12523@inews.intel.com>
- Date: 28 Jul 92 00:24:51 GMT
- Sender: news@inews.intel.com
- Reply-To: rcox@scdt.intel.com
- Organization: Intel Corporation
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- Has anyone taken a look at the listing of all newsgroups lately? All of
- the news is based on the premise of categorizing. Take comp.lang.* for
- instance. There are many groups which are split into several groups and
- it does work in othere areas. Some of this thread sounds like why not
- just have comp, alt, and rec with the apropriate subject lines and be
- done with it only having 3 newsgroups. (Unrealistic to make a point).
-
- The other point I see in this thread is "this has worked up til now,
- so why change?" which is a scary thought in and of itself. I believe
- that the general net crowd can handle things either way, with subject
- lines or with split groups. Both ways there will be people who do it
- against the convention.
-
- Cons to splitting:
-
- o misuse (cross-posting)
-
- Pros to splitting:
-
- o easier to find articles specific to you
- o people without sorting/kill files benefit quite a bit
- o manageable # of articles per group
-
- Cons to not-splitting:
-
- o misuse (poor subject lines)
- o huge number of articles in 1 group
- o difficult to find specific articles, esp. without sorting capability
-
- Pros to not splitting:
-
- o we don't have to change what we do now
-
- Yes this is probably a bit biased, but what did you expect?
-
- Flame away...
-
- -Rich
-
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