xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) (10/25/90)
It's always nicer to have a little real data to scare away the bugaboos:
We expire news between 7 and 8 days; number of articles currently online
at Zorch:
/usr/spool/news/comp/sys/amiga 997
/usr/spool/news/comp/sys/amiga/games 152
/usr/spool/news/comp/sys/amiga/tech 214
/usr/spool/news/comp/sys/amiga/hardware 125
As you can see, c.s.a.games is closer to 15% of the volume of c.s.a than
the claimed 33%.
Also, though c.s.a.tech and c.s.a.hardware have been around a _long_
time, they have _not_ "grown back to the size of c.s.a".
More interesting, though c.s.a.games has been around unofficially since
just January, and officially since August, it is already intermediate to
the other two spinoff groups, and seems to have achieved a stable
volume.
Most likely, if we split c.s.a, the individual spinoff groups will have
volumes somewhere between 1/12 of the current volume (~80 articles a
week) and the volume of the largest existing spinoff group (~200
articles a week).
I for one would much prefer to read my favorite three subgroups at twenty
articles each a day than to plow though the current c.s.a at 140 articles
per day, spending most of my time killing uninteresting threads.
Frankly, by the way, .tech is getting a little big to handle. Maybe when
it becomes .programmer, and more of the .hardware appropriate articles
actual go to .hardware, there will be a little better balance.
/// It's Amiga
/// for me: why
Kent, the man from xanth. \\\/// settle for
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