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- From: drew@ophelia.cs.colorado.edu (Drew Eckhardt)
- Subject: Re: SPLIT #$%&%$ THIS GROUP NOW!!!!!!!
- Message-ID: <1992Dec14.035214.28632@colorado.edu>
- Sender: news@colorado.edu (The Daily Planet)
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- Organization: University of Colorado at Boulder
- References: <Byz9LB.7DJ@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <1992Dec9.062855.9345@tc.cornell.edu> <BCR.92Dec12201153@hfl3sn02.cern.ch>
- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 03:52:14 GMT
- Lines: 73
-
- Net news has more than just comp.os.linux*. There are a number of other
- hierchies, such as comp.windows.x, comp.unix, etc that are better suited
- to many linux questions.
-
- If people would use these, and then post to comp.os.linux only after
- reading the various FAQ's, info sheets, and TFM, maybe we wouldn't
- have any traffic problems.
-
-
- In article <BCR.92Dec12201153@hfl3sn02.cern.ch> bcr@cernapo.cern.ch (Bill Riemers) writes:
- >
- >I'm not sure why .bugs failed, but it is clear why .questions and .misc failed.
- >What is the difference? Also what would be the point of posting to .questions,
-
- The FAQ, TFM, and comp.os.unix.questions probably cover 99% of the traffic
- that would end up in this group. The other 1% of this traffic shouldn't
- make a significant impact on comp.os.linux.
-
- >when the experts would probably just read .bugs and .misc.
-
- > .x11
-
- Try
-
- comp.windows.x.announce
- comp.windows.x.motif
- comp.windows.x.pex
- comp.windows.x.apps
- comp.windows.x.intrinsics
-
- For general questions, you'll reach a much wider audience that is
- knowledgeable about X.
-
- There shouldn't be any real linux specific issues for X (You could
- make an argument for -pn (no tcp-ip support), but some commercial
- vendors have unbundled tcp/ip and -pn would apply for them)
-
- comp.windows.x.i386unix should catch all of the Xfree stuff, this
- will benefit the BSD crowd and everybody with a commercial x86
- unix that wants an R5 server and clients.
-
-
- > .dosemulation
-
- Try comp.unix.dos-under-unix. Technical issues should go to the
- mailing list where they won't be lost in the noise.
-
- > .graphics
-
- Outside of a few X related posts, and an anouncement for shared libraries
- handling jpeg, etc, I haven't seen any recent graphics related posts on
- comp.os.linux.
-
- > .install
-
- Read the FAQ.
-
- Read the instructions that come with the SLS distribution.
-
- No problem.
-
- >
- >This is hardly intended to be a complete list, but merily the obvious ones
- >that came to mind.
-
- Please drop the split discussions. More sub groups weren't created because
- people didn't want them, or didn't care enough to participate in the
- RFD or CFVs. If you still feel the same way in six months, start a
- new RFD.
- --
- Boycott AT&T for their absurd anti-BSDI lawsuit. | Drew Eckhardt
- Condemn Colorado for Amendment Two. | drew@cs.colorado.edu
- Use Linux, the fast, flexible, and free 386 unix |
-