[net.audio] Excess Aural Newsgroups??

djj (09/08/82)

This article is an attempt to solict a response from those on the net who
read the three newsgroups devoted to the aural pleasures:  net.records, 
net.music, and net.audio.  For quite a long time, I have noticed that
if an article is posted to one of those three newsgroups, it often appears on
all of them!  This seems like a useless duplication of effort and a further
burden as the number of groups increases.  I propose the following two
alternatives:

      1)  Consolidation of the three groups into one.

      2)  Creating loose guidlines for the content of the three
          groups and maintaining them as distinct entities.

Your comments are solicited.  I volunteer to summarize the results and post
to the net.  

Regards, 

Dave Johnson
BTL - Piscataway
(...!mhux*!pyuxjj!pyuxcc!djj)

mark (09/08/82)

Why not make a heirarchy?  For example:
	net.audio
	net.audio.records
	net.audio.music
If there are things that should go to all three, they could be posted
just to net.audio.  If there is a need in net.audio for separate
things that don't involve records or music, another subcategory
could be created, or a new word could be made up:
	net.foo.audio
	net.foo.records
	net.foo.music
with some suitable foo.