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- From: nelson@reed.edu (Nelson Minar)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: A proposal for organizing comp.os.linux. [NEW-CHANNELS]
- Message-ID: <1992Dec13.204007.17189@reed.edu>
- Date: 13 Dec 92 20:40:07 GMT
- Article-I.D.: reed.1992Dec13.204007.17189
- References: <Bz6A6K.HFu@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Reply-To: nelson@reed.edu (Nelson Minar)
- Organization: Reed College, Portland, OR
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- (sorry for posting metadiscussion. I promise I'll only do it once!)
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- For what it's worth, I think comp.os.linux is damned near unreadable.
- It isn't just that there are 150 messages a day. The messages in this
- newsgroup are completely disorganized. There are 150 messages and 100
- different threads! I'm disappointed that the group reorg didn't pass.
-
- However, if a few of the louder voices on comp.os.linux really wanted
- to, we could still split comp.os.linux this week. Instead of splitting
- it according to the normal Usenet voting procedures, split it into the
- alt groups. Alt groups don't require a vote - a week's discussion on
- alt.config seems to be sufficient.
-
- There are some good reasons not to do this. For one thing, it's fairly
- sleazy. I don't think anyone's circumvented the newsgroup voting rules
- this way before. Also, alt groups are in general not as desirable as
- groups in the Usenet heirarchy.
-
- I don't know if it's a good idea. But it is an option.
- __
- nelson@reed.edu \/ You're free, so anything could happen, so happy birthday
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