gilgalad@caen.engin.umich.edu (Ralph Seguin) (11/09/90)
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! See ya, Ralph Ralph Seguin gilgalad@dip.eecs.umich.edu 536 South Forest Apt. #915 gilgalad@caen.engin.umich.edu Ann Arbor, MI 48104 (313) 662-4805
jmeissen@oregon.oacis.org ( Staff OACIS) (11/10/90)
In article <1990Nov9.083259.4209@engin.umich.edu> gilgalad@caen.engin.umich.edu (Ralph Seguin) writes: >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! This discussion has been moved to the more appropriate newsgroup news.groups. -- John Meissen .............................. Oregon Advanced Computing Institute jmeissen@oacis.org (Internet) | "That's the remarkable thing about life; ..!sequent!oacis!jmeissen (UUCP) | things are never so bad that they can't jmeissen (BIX) | get worse." - Calvin & Hobbes
jones@uv4.eglin.af.mil (Calvin Jones, III) (11/14/90)
Kent Paul Dolan <xanthian@zorch.sf-bay.org> writes: > 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). This will certainly be appreciated by a *LOT* of current Relay subscribers! > 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. 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. --- Cal