tom@mims-iris.waterloo.edu (Tom Haapanen) (12/06/89)
The volume in rec.autos has been getting quite high, and I've been
thinking for a while about ideas for splitting the newsgroup to
make it more manageable. I've given thought to, but discarded,
rec.autos.minivan, rec.autos.radar, rec.autos.55mph, rec.autos.my-
car-is-better-than-yours and rec.autos.all-american-cars-suck. :)
The blinding flash of innovation that I had this morning made sense
of it all, doing a logical split and even distributing the traffic
fairly evenly. Consider the following newsgroup descriptions:
rec.autos Discussions about cars
rec.autos.driving Discussions about driving, radar detectors, fines and 55 mph
Of course, we already have
rec.autos.sport Discussions about motorsports
rec.autos.tech Discussions about maintaining and repairing cars
Does the traffic volume warrant this? I believe so; from Nov 27 through
Dec 5, we had 320 articles in rec.autos, or 40 articles a day. I roughly
divided these into the new categories, and I came up with:
rec.autos 144
rec.autos.driving 166
rec.autos.tech 9 (misposted into rec.autos)
alt.flame 1 (misposted into rec.autos)
What will this gain us? It will make it possible to easily follow either
the car discussions or the driving discussions only. If you want to read
both, you can simply subscribe to both groups.
If the discussion is generally positive, I will be posting a call for
votes for rec.autos.driving in accordance with the guidelines after
Christmas, on about Dec 27.
\tom haapanen
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