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- From: hugh@kink.PhaedraV.On.Ca (Hugh D. Gamble)
- Newsgroups: alt.sys.amiga.uucp
- Subject: Why not make a new Amiga news s/w alt group.
- Message-ID: <1Fkas*bY7@kink.PhaedraV.On.Ca>
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 09:07:13 EST
- Keywords: uucp news new group alt vs comp
- Summary: alt is the wrong place.
- Distribution: world
- Organization: Phaedra V
- Lines: 51
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- The following is an exerpt from the guidelines for creation of an alt
- group that specifically goes against Skip's reasons for wanting to
- create a new group for Amiga news s/w in alt:
-
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- Guidelines for the creation of an "alt" group.
- ...
-
- new group. Be prepared to explain why an existing group cannot
- be used for this purpose, and why the group should be in "alt"
- rather than in one of the mainstream hierarchies (like
- "rec", "sci", etc.). Avoiding the complexity of the
- mainstream group creation procedure is not a very good
- reason, groups should not be created in "alt" just because
- it's easier. Many sites do not get any alt groups, so if
- you are proposing a serious group, it is worth the effort to
- try to get it into a mainstream hierarchy.
-
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-
- The free nature of alt makes it likely that at least several sites
- would carry any group that got created, but alt is not the appropriate
- place.
-
- Now, as to the need for creation of something like comp.sys.amiga.news.sw.
- Starting from an "if it's not broken don't fix it" position, why does
- it need a separate group?
-
- Are there people who like to read about uucp who are getting annoyed
- by the volume of posts about news s/w (posts about creating new groups
- don't count :-) ? Are there people who are only interested in the news
- s/w who don't want to have to skip past the irrelevant posts about
- uucp? Is the traffic level in the uucp and uucp.patches group so high
- that it is hard to find and read only the articles you want? If uucp
- and news were in separate groups would cross posting be so high that
- it wouldn't make much difference from if they were still together?
- Would you read one group but not the other?
-
- If there are some good answers to those questions, then we should
- think about the creation of comp.sys.amiga.news.sw.
-
- Regardless, we should think about moving alt.sys.amiga.uucp* to
- comp.sys.amiga.uucp* for the wider distribution.
-
- Comments?
-
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