[comp.windows.x] splitting comp.windows.x

mark@drd.UUCP (Mark Lawrence) (03/16/89)

bob@tinman.cis.ohio-state.edu (Bob Sutterfield) wrote:
} [...]
} If the Consortium staff, who have graciously consented to allow their
} mailing list to be gatewayed for the convenience of folks like us who
} prefer the news mechanisms, say that they don't want to split it up,
} then there's really not much discussion involved, and certainly not a
} vote!  [...]

The Consortium staff, I would imagine, hasn't unlimited time (and
energy) to keep up with the volume and might appreciate an organized
approach to the torrent of X related information coursing through the
list at present.  So, a question to the Consortium folks who do this
work and care about this particular issue: Would splitting up the list 
to mirror some of the proposed newsgroup categories be such an 
administrative chore as to be prohibitive as contrasted to the benefits 
of breaking it up?

I'm in agreement with Bob that the list maintainers have much of the
say as to what will eventually be done.

rws@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Bob Scheifler) (03/17/89)

    Would splitting up the list 
    to mirror some of the proposed newsgroup categories be such an 
    administrative chore as to be prohibitive as contrasted to the benefits 
    of breaking it up?

In a word, and as I indicated in a previous message, "Yes".  The staff who
are generally responsible for responding to xpert questions pretty much have
to read everything anyway, and those who don't have gotten pretty good at
scanning and clicking Delete on xmh.  We see very little personal benefit from
a split, and a significantly increased headache in maintaining the lists.

tom@ICASE.EDU (Tom Crockett) (03/18/89)

As one of the readers of the "xpert" mailing list (rather than
comp.windows.x), I would like to echo Bob Scheifler's sentiments regarding
multiple mailing lists/newsgroups.  I personally would find it easier to deal
with a single group than several.  It is not at all clear to me what an
appropriate division would be.  Unless I subscribed to everything, it seems
like there's a good chance of missing something useful at least occasionally.


Tom Crockett

ICASE
Institute for Computer Applications in Science and Engineering