Re: RFD: comp.sys.apple2 reorganization submitted!

[philip@nexus.yorku.ca (Phil McDunnough)]

In article <1993Apr3.061659.18910@r-node.hub.org> taob@r-node.hub.org writes:

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>    Strange, I had no problems obtaining comp.sys.apple2.gno at
>Scarborough which feeds off the helios.physics server.  Perhaps you
>should connect there instead of utstat?  Or you can get an account on
>r-node.hub.org (see my sig) which has a full feed, e-mail, shell access,
>two v.32bis dial up lines for members, etc.  It's quite a nice system.

helios feeds quite a few other places, such as the one I am on. Now whether
or not there is then some sort of censureship depends on the Systems'
Administrator who has to take many things into account. Thus we get a subset
of helios's feed.
 
>    Anyway, you're a reasonable person, Phil.  The creation of a
>newsgroup should based on its merit, not whether your site will receive
>it.  Forget for a moment that your site administrator isn't willing to
>carry new groups. How would you judge the proposal, based on its merits
>alone?

I agree that the newsgroup should be split if it makes sense. Your proposal
looks great on paper. The only point I can't seem to get away from is the
loss of community which will result from it. 
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>> Perhaps I am missing something...The group is too small to be fragmented
>> further.
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>    I don't think so, and many others agree.  Csa2 is by no means as
>large as some of the other high-volume newsgroups, but I feel there is
>enough activity to sustain the four new newsgroups.  Based on my
>informal survey, 25% of the messages will fall into one of the new
>categories.  It is also reasonable to assume that traffic will increase
>once those topics have been split off from csa2 (i.e., Doug Granzow's
>a2-bbs mailing list merging with csa2.comm).

The problem is that many threads would logically have to cross newsgroups and
you'd end up losing the starting character. Don't forget that splitting
up may be easy, but getting them all back together may be difficult.

Philip