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- From: kamorgan@athena.mit.edu (Keith Morgan)
- Subject: Re: Call For Discussion: rec.arts.books.reviewed
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.034749.23220@athena.mit.edu>
- Followup-To: rec.arts.books, alt.fan.lemurs
- Sender: kamorgan@athena.mit.edu (Keith Morgan)
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- Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- References: <1992Dec17.175807.22270@blaze.cs.jhu.edu> <sph0301.122.724692333@utsph.sph.uth.tmc.edu> <1992Dec18.171313.21177@blaze.cs.jhu.edu>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 03:47:49 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec18.171313.21177@blaze.cs.jhu.edu> callahan@biffvm.cs.jhu.edu (Paul Callahan) writes:
-
- >Now, rebuttals to specific objections:
- >Some say the volume is too low. I've typed "cd /usr/spool/news/rec/arts/books"
- >and I see 414 articles posted since Dec 14. This is low volume? Compared to
- >alt.sex, maybe, but by civilized standards I'd say the volume is high enough
- >to merit a split. Perhaps the claim was that the volume of book-related
- >postings is too low to merit a separate group. That's a more plausible
- >theory, I admit.
-
- I kind of hate to bring this up but the traffic over the
- possibility of a split is generating a hell of a lot of traffic
- itself. Besides that, what will the difference be? Most people will
- probably cross-post anyway. Paul, you seem to be chastising Francis
- for his promotion of a judicious use of "n", "k", and "K". I don't see
- what's the matter with that in the first place. If you killed the
- discussion that didn't interest you, then wouldn't you have the low
- traffic literature discussion that you seem to want? Anyway, my
- suggestion is, enough discussion, put out a RFD, let's put it to a
- vote, I know which way I'll vote. Maybe then we can get back to this
- supposed cliquishness that upsets everyone.
-
- Keith
-
-
- --
-
- Keith Morgan kamorgan@athena.mit.edu
- In the end nothing could be said of his work except that it was
- preposterous and true and totally unacceptable. Edward Whittemore
-