Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84 chuqui version 1.7 9/23/84; site nsc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!decwrl!sun!idi!nsc!chuqui From: chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Chuqui Q. Koala) Newsgroups: net.news.group Subject: Re: Divisions of net.unix* Message-ID: <2151@nsc.UUCP> Date: Fri, 4-Jan-85 15:27:40 EST Article-I.D.: nsc.2151 Posted: Fri Jan 4 15:27:40 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 6-Jan-85 00:13:09 EST References: <823@amdahl.UUCP> <190@masscomp.UUCP> Reply-To: chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Chuqui Q. Koala) Distribution: net Organization: The Warlocks Cave Lines: 37 Summary: >In article <823@amdahl.UUCP> (Gordon A. Moffett) proposes >>spliting it into smaller, more >>sensible pieces by creating new subgroups of net.unix. sigh. There is a BIG problem with splitting net.unix*, something people seem to be forgetting. It is called the ARPAnet. A good percentage of the volume of net.unix-wizards and net.unix comes off of the arpanet, and the arpanet gets everything funneled back up to it. Unless you can talk the arpanet people into splitting their end as well, you are creating a BIG logistical problem. If you post something to net.unix.wizards.games.zork.hints, it is easy to simply ship that to INFO-UNIX-WIZARDS on the net, but how does something come back? and where? Unless you can get someone like Mark Shaney to read each message and move it into the appropriate group, about half of the messages will still show up in unix-wizards when they come off of ARPA, and a lot of responses will get lost because of the group shift. Besides, it is simply silly. net.unix is underutilized because people insist on posting everything to unix-wizards. net.unix-wizards is mis-utilized because people start nitpicking and get off the subject too easily. Perhaps what we ought to do is say that technical discussions belong in net.unix-wizards and when they digress into political, personal, or religious (like VMS) discussions they move to net.unix. chuq -- From the ministry of silly talks: Chuq Von Rospach {allegra,cbosgd,decwrl,hplabs,ihnp4,seismo}!nsc!chuqui nsc!chuqui@decwrl.ARPA Deadbone erotica is the prickly panic of forgotten milleniums, it is the moldy billion year madness that creeps deep along the spinal behind of my mind.