mae@aplvax.UUCP (12/14/83)
As one of the guilty ones submitting Doctor Who articles to net.sf-lovers I don't agree with setting up a separate newsgroup for every sf tv show. There are a lot of them out there that I would love discussing, though none of my top ten favorites were made for American tv and most can only be seen at sf conventions. If the chauvinists in net.sf-lovers want to insist on keeping media other than literature out of the newsgroup, how about net.sf.tv (or net.tv.sf). Most of these discussions come and go rather quickly. There has been a lot on Doctor Who just now because of the 20th anniversary special. Of course, if you do set up a Doctor Who newsgroup I will read it avidly, but I just posted an article on Blake's Seven to net.sf-lovers, where will it all end? Mary Anne Espenshade ...!seismo!umcp-cs!aplvax!mae
israel@umcp-cs.UUCP (12/15/83)
How about creating temporary discussion sub-groups? For example,
create a 'net.sf-lovers.temp' (I know, I don't like that name
either; suggestions for a better name are hereby asked for).
When topics like the current Dr-Who topic start getting really
verbose, and annoying to the rest of the discussion group, it
can be proposed that Dr. Who. discussion moves to 'net.sf-lovers.temp'
for the duration of the discussion. When a temp discussion dies out,
the group is available for the next temp discussion. If a discussion
lasts a long time (like over two or three months), then there is a
very good rationale for it to have its own permanent newsgroup.
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^-^ Bruce ^-^
University of Maryland, Computer Science
{rlgvax,seismo}!umcp-cs!israel (Usenet) israel.umcp-cs@CSNet-Relay (Arpanet)mush@dsd.UUCP (12/24/83)
Why not net.tv.sf ?