[net.auto.tech] Dual Postings

bruce@dciem.UUCP (Bruce Ferguson) (01/20/86)

There have been far too many dual postings, (net.auto &net.auto.tech)
of late. Please remember why the "tech" group was created, and notice
that the number of real technical contributors has trickled off, just
as it did  in the beginning with net.auto. By survey, it appears that
many people read both groups anyway, so rest assured that your important
opinions and recollections will get the audience they seek, even though
they be posted only in net.auto.

mberns@ut-ngp.UUCP (Mark Bernstein) (01/22/86)

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bruce@dciem.UUCP (Bruce Ferguson)  writes:

>  There have been far too many dual postings, (net.auto &net.auto.tech)
>  of late. Please remember why the "tech" group was created...

I'd agree completely.  It can't be *that* hard to figure out in which group
a posting should appear.

>  By survey, it appears that many people read both groups anyway, so 
>  rest assured that your important opinions and recollections will get 
>  the audience they seek, even though they be posted only in net.auto.

True - but let's not take this to mean, then, that there's no need to
have the two groups.  The point of forming the tech group was not entirely
that some of us didn't want to read about non-tech topics.   There were
other reasons, as well.  Even though an individual may read both, it works
*much, much* better to have the topical areas separate - it is easier
and more coherent to follow discussions over time, for instance, when
you're not hopping, bouncing, weaving, and wading your way through a mixture of
tech and non-tech articles.

Can we try harder??

[This one dual-posted for obvious reasons :-)  ]

Mark Bernstein  (UT - Austin, Speech)

ugzannin@sunybcs.UUCP (Adrian Zannin) (01/29/86)

(discussion about how most people read both groups anyway)
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  Please keep in mind that there are also a few of us that don't want to
have anything to do with driving legalities, radar detector legislation,
road rules, etc.  In other words, we don't read net.auto, just net.auto.tech.
That's my two-cents worth...thanks for listening...

-- 
     Adrian Zannin
     SUNY at Buffalo Computer Science

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