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

[philip@utstat.toronto.edu (Philip McDunnough)]

In article <cv68297@pro-cynosure.cts.com> dig@pro-cynosure.cts.com (Doug Granzow) writes:

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>Just because you personally will not be able to get the groups is no reason
>to deny the rest of us these new newsgroups.  There are many ways for you to
>get newsgroups outside of your "Department".

Presumably that it why I only have one vote. I don't really have convenient
ways to get the newsgroups. What we get is decide on a departmental basis. The
whole University gets all the groups. We have to justify getting the ones we
do.
 
Other people have had to leave groups because they became too comercial. I do
think that many people are unaware of the nature of the Internet (vs. the 
Usenet). 
 
In any case, if people want the groups divided I can't stop it. I can see some
merit, but really I think it's for the worse in the longer term (in the
same way  that giving up comp.sys.apple was a terrible mistake).
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>>Perhaps I am missing something...The group is too small to be fragmented
>>further.
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>On the contrary, I am now getting somewhere around 80 messages a day on
>comp.sys.apple2 alone, and the majority of them are meaningless to me. 
>Seperating them by topic would make things much easier to manage.

You can get readers to separate messages in various ways.
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Philip McDunnough
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