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- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!news.funet.fi!hydra!klaava!wirzeniu
- From: wirzeniu@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Lars Wirzenius)
- Subject: Re: suggestion spliting g
- Message-ID: <1992Dec20.055903.2474@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
- Followup-To: news.groups
- Organization: University of Helsinki
- References: <1992Dec13.2707.17396@dosgate> <1992Dec15.184442.3974@gkminix.han.de>
- Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 05:59:03 GMT
- Lines: 31
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- gero@gkminix.han.de (Gero Kuhlmann) writes:
- >Do you (or anybody else) have any idea of how to subdivide this group? I think
- >we should at least create a group which covers all the newcomer questions and
- >regular postings like the FAQ and the INFO SHEET.
-
- Oh please.
-
- Is it really that hard to understand that there _was_ an attempt to
- create more groups for Linux, and that it _failed_, with the exception
- of the group comp.os.linux.announce. And because of the failure,
- there can't be another attempt until six months pass from the previous
- one (that's about five months from now).
-
- Followups to news.groups, where you can discuss the fact that the
- people most eager to propose new groups and splitting groups usually
- don't seem to have a clue.
-
- [ I post this note in public because there won't be an end to these
- complaints until everybody knows what the current situation is. ]
-
- On a more constructive side, perhaps you could do something about your
- newsreading software and habits to make it easier to follow groups
- with a large volume. Things like using a better newsreader (I prefer
- trn myself), kill files, selecting articles based on subject lines and
- or keywords in the article body, and so on. If you can't do any of
- these, I feel sorry for you, but you still can't split the group until
- June next year or so.
-
- --
- Lars.Wirzenius@helsinki.fi (finger wirzeniu@klaava.helsinki.fi)
- MS-DOS, you can't live with it, you can live without it.
-