[net.news.group] Pet Peeve - net.micro.*

kgdykes@watbun.UUCP (07/05/85)

  I am not interested in APPLES, PCs, CPM and a whole bunch of
other specialty sub-groups, but by subscribing to just net.micro
I seem to have to wade through the junk from the subgroups anyway!
Must people always send a copy to net.micro when posting to a 
specialty subgroup -- can they not think first if it is of
"general" micro interest or not covered by a subgroup???
And if cross-posting a LARGE article (gt. one screenfull) does seem 
necessary, couldnt a "pointer" note to the large article in the
specialty group be just submitted to the more general net.micro?

A small sampling from the last 2 or 3 days...
  Newsgroups: net.micro,net.micro.pc
  Newsgroups: net.micro,net.micro.apple
  Newsgroups: net.micro.mac,net.micro
  Newsgroups: net.micro,net.micro.cpm
  Newsgroups: net.micro,net.micro.pc
  Newsgroups: net.micro,net.micro.apple
  Newsgroups: net.micro,net.micro.pc
  Newsgroups: net.micro,net.micro.apple
  Newsgroups: net.micro,net.micro.pc
  Newsgroups: net.micro,net.micro.apple
  Newsgroups: net.micro,net.micro.pc
  Newsgroups: net.micro,net.micro.pc
  Newsgroups: net.micro,net.micro.pc
  Newsgroups: net.micro,net.micro.apple
  Newsgroups: net.micro,net.micro.pc,net.micro.apple
  Newsgroups: net.micro,net.micro.apple
  Newsgroups: net.micro,net.micro.pc
  Newsgroups: net.micro,net.micro.trs-80
  Newsgroups: net.micro,net.micro.pc
  Newsgroups: net.micro,net.micro.pc
  Newsgroups: net.micro,net.micro.cbm
  Newsgroups: net.math,net.med,net.micro,net.micro.cpm,net.micro.pc,net.sources
  Newsgroups: net.micro,net.micro.pc
  Newsgroups: net.micro,net.micro.pc
  Newsgroups: net.micro,net.micro.pc
  Newsgroups: net.micro,net.micro.pc
  Newsgroups: net.micro,net.micro.trs-80
  Newsgroups: net.micro,net.micro.pc

          - Ken Dykes
            Software Development Group, U. of Waterloo
            Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.  N2L 3G1
            {clyde,utzoo}!watmath!watbun!kgdykes

indra@utai.UUCP (Indra Laksono) (07/06/85)

> 
>   I am not interested in APPLES, PCs, CPM and a whole bunch of
> other specialty sub-groups, but by subscribing to just net.micro
> I seem to have to wade through the junk from the subgroups anyway!
> Must people always send a copy to net.micro when posting to a 
> specialty subgroup -- can they not think first if it is of
> "general" micro interest or not covered by a subgroup???
> And if cross-posting a LARGE article (gt. one screenfull) does seem 
> necessary, couldnt a "pointer" note to the large article in the
> specialty group be just submitted to the more general net.micro?
> 
> A small sampling from the last 2 or 3 days...
>   Newsgroups: net.micro,net.micro.pc
/* a bunch of other newsgroups */

I'm afraid it's not as simple as that.  Take my case, I've found out
about GEM running on the Sanyo mbc 555.  Who should I post to?
	1. Since the sanyo is ibm compatible net.micro.pc
	2. Since first system with GEM is the Atari 5?? ST, net.micro.atari
	3. Since the Sanyo has no true section, net.micro

I didn't send it to net.micro.atari as no sanyo user would try to find out
info on their machines in there.  When, I got my micro, I looked only at
net.micro and net.micro.pc for relevant material.  Hence the two posting.

Having a pointer was useless in my case as my posting was about 20 lines
In fact, this followup article of what someone else has written is a lot
longer than my article.  If you still won't forgive me, then blame it on
itchy fingers.  OK???



..{allegra cornell decvax ihnp4 linus utzoo}!utcsri!utai!indra

kurt@fluke.UUCP (Kurt Guntheroth) (07/09/85)

Another problem (unsolvable) with net.micro is that INFO-MICRO from arpa is
gateway'd onto net.micro.  INFO-MICRO is a more general newsgroup, and so
some articles that might go to usenet subgroups are actually arpa-based,
where there is more restricted choice of subgroups.
-- 
Kurt Guntheroth
John Fluke Mfg. Co., Inc.
{uw-beaver,decvax!microsof,ucbvax!lbl-csam,allegra,ssc-vax}!fluke!kurt