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- From: rthomson@mesa.dsd.es.com (Rich Thomson)
- Subject: Re: Is there interest in comp.sources.postscript?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov22.225042.27892@dsd.es.com>
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- Reply-To: rthomson@dsd.es.com (Rich Thomson)
- Organization: Design Systems Division, Evans & Sutherland, SLC, UT
- References: <4424@vidiot.UUCP> <1992Nov13.074923.8783@dsd.es.com> <6764@m1.cs.man.ac.uk>
- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 92 22:50:42 GMT
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- In article <6764@m1.cs.man.ac.uk>
- lilleyc@cs.man.ac.uk (Chris Lilley) writes:
- > [proposal for comp.sources.postscript and comp.sources.postscript.d]
- >
- >There are two reasons why the suggested names are a good idea.
- >Firstly, they follow existing net conventions of a sources or binaries
- >group paired with another group with the ".d" appended - meaning the
- >discussion group. Conforming to the defacto naming standard seems a
- >good thing in itself - people know what to expect of the group simply
- >by looking at its name.
-
- I disagree. My experience indicates that many people either don't
- realize there is a ".d" group and don't know that "d" means
- discussion, either. All you have to do is to take a look at any of
- the unmoderated pictures groups to see that there are tons of people
- who won't follow this convention, _even_ when they do understand it.
-
- >Secondly, it ensures that discussion - which can be quite lengthy and
- >can diverge wildly from the original topic before the thread dies - is
- >in a separate group.
-
- A moderator ensures that discussion doesn't end up in the sources
- group. The moderator can simply point them back to
- comp.lang.postscript.
-
- >Moderated. Make that three reasons. A moderated sources group would be
- >a good idea IMHO, wheras I feel the discussion group would be better
- >unmoderated.
-
- Exactly. With a moderated sources group, there is no need for an
- "extra" discussion group. I could see the argument for creating
- another discussion group if the volume of comp.lang.postscript was
- already high, but any extra discussion can easily find room here.
-
- -- Rich
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