banner@ubc-vision.CDN (Allen Banner) (04/18/85)
> I.E. information in this group should be of interest to ALL. Not much > recently has been. Either we need more can.* newsgroups, or, better yet, > a lot of these discussions could move to can.politics. What would you rather talk about?...it's sunny here in Vancouver today...what's the weather like out there?... -- Al Banner banner@ubc.vision.UUCP
dudek@utai.UUCP (Gregory Dudek) (04/19/85)
>> Either we need more can.* newsgroups, or, better yet, >> a lot of these discussions could move to can.politics. > >What would you rather talk about?...it's sunny here in Vancouver >today...what's the weather like out there?... My impression was that newgroups like can.general were for bulletins, announcements, queries and SHORT discussions. Long ongoing debates should be relegated to some other group (like can.followup) so that people who get tired of the current ongoing debates don't have to unsubscribe from the basic group and miss finding out about NEW issues, etc. Gregory Dudek.
msb@lsuc.UUCP (Mark Brader) (04/20/85)
Background (just a few lines, bear with me): > > > Either we need more can.* newsgroups, or, better yet, > > > a lot of these discussions could move to can.politics. > > > >What would you rather talk about?...it's sunny here in Vancouver > >today...what's the weather like out there?... Gregory Dudek writes: > My impression was that newgroups like can.general were for > bulletins, announcements, queries and SHORT discussions. Correct! NOW can we move the SDI and Zundel/Keegstra to can.politics? > Long ongoing debates should be relegated to some > other group (like can.followup) ... Can.followup was removed a couple of months ago, at my instigation, because there wasn't enough traffic in can.general for can.followup to be needed, and in fact, can.followup was not being used. At all. Nor is there a sufficient volume of *appropriate* traffic in can.general now to justify a new group, since the current discussions can sit happily in can.politics. Once more: let's put them there! Mark Brader