george@flight.UUCP (George Rachor ) (12/05/90)
I posted this in response to a request for yet another newsgroup and it got me thinking perhaps news gurus would have some ideas on my ultimate solution (which is fixing either vn or rn to work right). I am running Intel xenix 3.5 on a 286 based system 310. Any comments would be greatly appreciated: From article <25719@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU>, by rs0@beach.cis.ufl.edu (Bob Slaughter): > > Actually, more than 90% of rec.railroad deals with Real 1:1 Scale > railroading. While interesting to model railroaders, the essentials > of model railroading are pretty minimal on that board. I don't remember any model railroader being discouraged from posting there. I have done it several times. The only reason the traffic is only 10% model is because that is all who posts. If more modelers were to post then perhaps a natural splitting of the groups would occur. I seem to remember an attempt a couple of years ago to split the group and it failed. The only reason I am saying anything now is that the last thing my particular news software needs right now is more newsgroups to deal with. Both of the newsreaders I try to use (vn and rn) fail to work properly when there are more than 700 newsgroups. I know I need to fix this but until I get time to look at this I am stuck. Every time a new group is created I need to decide if the new group will replace the old or be ignored. I've decided to crosspost this to some of the news related groups. Maybe they have the answer. Until then I reccomend using rec.railroad. -- George Rachor Jr. Intel Corporation Hillsboro, OR 97124 george@flight.hf.intel.com