[comp.arch] Voting period concluded for comp.re

gillies@p.cs.uiuc.edu (04/28/89)

I want to restate my view:  I think this is a bad idea.  And I work on
  scheduling for real-time systems.

I believe that a new group should be created only when 
  1.  The traffic in a group becomes very heavy
  2.  The traffic can be divided into (at least) two parts
  3.  There are people who read one portion or another exclusively

Examples:
  1.  comp.sys.mac -> comp.sys.mac + comp.sys.mac.programmer
		      + comp.sys.mac.hypercard
  2.  sci.physics  -> sci.physics + alt.fusion



According to the above criteria, you have no good reason to create the
new discussion group.  If there really is a high level of interest,
why don't we see heavy discussion about real systems in comp.os.research,
comp.theory, or other newsgroups?