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- From: ujlh@pool.info.sunyit.edu (James Henrickson)
- Subject: Re: A proposal for organizing comp.os.linux. [NEW-CHANNELS]
- Message-ID: <1992Dec15.223605.16737@pool.info.sunyit.edu>
- Organization: State University of New York -- Institute of Technology
- References: <Bz6A6K.HFu@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <1992Dec13.204007.17189@reed.edu>
- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 22:36:05 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec13.204007.17189@reed.edu> nelson@reed.edu (Nelson Minar) writes:
- >(sorry for posting metadiscussion. I promise I'll only do it once!)
- >
-
- I didn't want to add to the traffic either, but I have a suggestion that
- I haven't seen yet.
-
- >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.
-
- This won't be good for people that can't get "alt" newsgroups, or for
- sites that can't quickly subscribe to a new group. I don't have this
- problem, just pointing out that some people do.
-
- I think people should be encouraged (to put it nicely) to use other
- newsgroups. We could add a section to the META-FAQ to remind people
- which groups to use. For example, comp.windows.x.i386unix (I think
- I got it right!) is for XFree86. A lot of X problems can be answered
- there. Likewise, there are groups for "is there an X app that can do
- this" (comp.windows.x.apps), "I'm new to Unix. What command should I
- use to..." (comp.unix.wizards?), etc.
-
- I think I've explained this fairly well. I won't attempt to define
- what constitutes a "proper" message for comp.os.linux because I don't
- want to scare people away, but I think that voluntary compliance with
- an idea such as this would reduce the traffic in this news group.
-
- --
- Jim H.
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- * James L. Henrickson | "I don't need a signature, I need a job!"
- * ujlh@sunyit.edu | BSCS, December 1992
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