epeterso@houligan.encore.com (Eric Peterson) (11/01/90)
W_TROIA@upr1.upr.cun.edu (Paolo V. Troia) writes: | In article <6658@chorus.fr>, ferry@chorus.fr (Ferry de Jong) writes: | | >Think, before you post. It isn't difficult to pick the right group. | | No, it isn't that difficult to pick the right group... *if* you have a | choice of newsgroups to post it to, that is. This is exactly why there are approximately fifteen newsgroups in Kent's proposal. | Keep in mind that not *all* | the people who send articles to the net have direct access to Usenet, and | thus might not have much of a choice of newsgroups when posting their | articles. Some people (like me) get the c.s.a.* newsgroups over the mail by | means of amiga-relay. If the reorganization goes through as planned, Amiga-Relay will break when comp.sys.amiga is rmgrouped and replaced by comp.sys.amiga.misc. I believe that Kent is trying to work this situation out with the relay operators at udel.edu. IMHO, there's only three different things they can do: 1. Redirect Amiga-Relay from comp.sys.amiga to comp.sys.amiga.misc. This would be comparatively easy for the relay SAs to do and utterly horrible for the .misc group. It would completely defeat the purpose of splitting up comp.sys.amiga. 2. Change the Amiga-Relay into a one-way mailing list for all of the comp.sys.amiga.* groups. No posting to the groups through the relay would be permitted. This would probably be good for the hardheads who want everything all in one big group, but it would create a huge amount of traffic through the relay. 3. Create new relays for some or all of the new groups. Instead of having amiga-relay@udel.edu feeding into comp.sys.amiga, there could be something like csa-misc feeding .misc, csa-announce feeding .announce, and so forth. This, however, would pose subscription problems for the operators of the relay. Personally, I think 3 is the best route to go, gatewaying the groups with importance (such as .announce) or heavy traffic (like .marketplace). However, this requires time and effort from the staff at UDel that I'm not sure they have available. Given that, I think the next best alternative is 2, with at least some if not all of the groups gatewayed into one list. | Just remember not | *everyone* has a choice of newsgroups when posting, so please think twice | before flaming a mis-posted article's poster. You can still post to *any* newsgroup in one of the Big Seven hierarchies by sending mail to "news-group-name@ucbvax.berkeley.edy". Your message will be automatically gatewayed into the rest of Usenet. To post to comp.sys.amiga.hardware, you'd send mail to the address "comp-sys-amiga-hardware@ucbvax.berkeley.edu" (note that you've gotta change the periods in the group name to hyphens). Eric -- Eric Peterson <> epeterson@encore.com <> uunet!encore!epeterson Encore Computer Corp. * Ft. Lauderdale, Florida * (305) 587-2900 x 5208 Why did Constantinople get the works? Gung'f abobql'f ohfvarff ohg gur Ghexf.