xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) (11/11/90)
gilgalad@caen.engin.umich.edu (Ralph Seguin) writes [about the split up of comp.sys.amiga]: > When are we going to get around to voting on new newsgroups? The > amount of articles and wasted bandwidth (such as this one 8-) is just > too high! Per the guidelines for creating new groups, the discussion period lasts three weeks. The Call For Discussion was sent to the moderator of news.announce.newgroups the first weekend in November, and posted by him in the wee hours of Monday, 5 November. I plan to send a Call For Votes to him the fourth weekend in November (probably Thanksgiving weekend), so you should expect it to be posted in news.announce.newgroups about the 26th of November, if the holidays don't slow things down. Voting will then run for three weeks. If all goes perfectly, the newgroup messages should be out before Christmas. There has been very limited discussion of the proposals in news.groups; a couple of complaints about the names, a couple of defenses answering those complaints, and that's about it. I suppose I should be happy that there is so little controversy, but it makes me a bit uneasy about getting the required vote totals that so little interest is being shown. This is a _major_ piece of surgery, does anyone care? By the way, good news, the moderator of amiga-relay at udel.edu finally contacted me, and it is his plan to split amiga-relay into separate two way relays for each subgroup of c.s.a.*, which will remove the annoyance of games and other postings funneling back to c.s.a (in a meta-sense, since that group will no longer exist). The only difficulty is deciding what to do about cross-postings. I hope that folks will follow my plan of holding discussions appropriate for many of the subgroups just in c.s.a.misc, rather than cross-posting the whole discussion, since the only plan that seems feasible for the relay is to send a copy of the cross-posted article to each group, which will be a lot of wasted email traffic if the cross-posting percent cannot be brought down from its current 5% level. I have redirected followups to news.groups, the appropriate current venue for this discussion. /// It's Amiga /// for me: why Kent, the man from xanth. \\\/// settle for <xanthian@Zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> <xanthian@well.sf.ca.us> \XX/ anything less? -- Convener, ongoing comp.sys.amiga grand reorganization.
sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks) (11/17/90)
jones@uv4.eglin.af.mil (Calvin Jones, III) writes: >Personally, I'd suggest that the relay should *NEVER* pass any >cross-posted message through. If it's really important enough to send >to multiple groups, then post manually to additional groups, *AFTER* >trying to get a reply from the most logical group. All that will do is cost everyone extra disk space saving multiple copies of the same posting. If someone want's to post in several groups, they will, whether crossposting is available or not. At least with crossposting you only have to have one copy of the article on disk. -- John Sparks |D.I.S.K. Public Access Unix System| Multi-User Games, Email sparks@corpane.UUCP |PH: (502) 968-DISK 24Hrs/2400BPS | Usenet, Chatting, =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-|7 line Multi-User system. | Downloads & more. A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of----Ogden Nash