ai065@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Thomas Hill) (01/09/91)
It's been my experience on small boards which went from few message
sections that had lots of traffic to more specific sections that had few
message traffic. The point being that you can kill a lot of conversation
by getting too specific about where messages should go.
Does anybody else feel that putting up seperate newsgroups for almost
every aspect of Amiga computing is going to kill a lot of future
conversation on here? I was happy with a hardware, general, tech, and
announce section. Of course this isn't a limited BBS system by any
means, but I've seen it happen time and time again.
Tom
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|.......................\\//..|swarren@convex.com (Steve Warren) (01/09/91)
In article <9101091137.AA26280@cwns1.INS.CWRU.Edu> ai065@cleveland.Freenet.Edu writes: > > > It's been my experience on small boards which went from few message >sections that had lots of traffic to more specific sections that had few >message traffic. The point being that you can kill a lot of conversation >by getting too specific about where messages should go. [...] YAYYY!!!! Let's hear it for killing some of the conversations in comp.sys.amiga! (make that comp.sys.amiga.misc - see followup line). OK Thomas, this is important note #1... *********THAT'S THE POINT******** OK, now here is important note #2... *********IT'S ALREADY DONE******** We discussed it for weeks. We announced it to the world. We all voted. It passed overwhelmingly. It's a done deal. I agree, there will not be as much traffic here. That is a good thing. In fact, that was our objective. -- _. --Steve ._||__ DISCLAIMER: All opinions are my own. Warren v\ *| ---------------------------------------------- V {uunet,sun}!convex!swarren; swarren@convex.COM
ai065@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Thomas Hill) (01/13/91)
To Tom Limoncelli (And any other Amiga user who takes every little
chance they get to bash other users of this newsgroup):
What is your problem? Your childish remarks and K-grade cuttdowns do
nothing to enhance the conversation of the Amiga newsgroups. I've noticed
a trend in the Amiga conferences. People reply to messages with the intent
of ripping the other user apart, instead of informing or addressing the
original questions in the message, probably to boast their ego.
There are a lot of so called "experts" on this newsgroup. Insecure users
are probably trying to justify their imagined image by bashing others
whenever possible. Grow up a little. We all own Amigas here, and with
messages like that, I wouldn't expect too many new computer buyers to
opt for an Amiga.
As far as your unprevoked attack on Cleveland Free-Net goes, turn your
nose up at somebody else. Nobody here is interested. By the way, do you
even know what Cleveland Free-Net is? By your comments I would expect
that you think it's users are all related to the same college. Again,
please leave your crude comments to somebody who likes to take part in
childish wars, like Mark. I am here to take part in the discussion of
Amiga related topics, not to be used as a punching bag for an immature
Amiga user who wants to look big in front of his friends.
Tom
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|.......................\\//..|wolf@cbnewsh.att.com (thomas.wolf) (01/14/91)
To whichever faction thinks that there are too many new Amiga sub-groups, I add my puny vote. If nothing else, it adds dozens of extra bytes to thousands (maybe even millions?) of '.newsrc' files :-) On the serious side: I also think that traffic could adversely be affected by a splitting of newsgroups. As I see it, for two reasons: 1. There will be people that will refrain from posting because they are no longer sure as to _where_ to post. 2. There will be people bashing others because they posted something to the "incorrect" group which, in turn, magnifies (1). Oh well, those I my $.02 worth.... Tom -- +-------------------------------------+ "Stupid" questions are better than | Thomas Wolf | (201) 615-4789 | no questions at all. No answer is | Bell Labs, NJ | wolf@mink.att.com | better than a stupid one. +-------------------------------------+