Re: Splitting this newsgroup?

In article <CsI9r0.3Az_at_cmutual.com.au>, aaj_at_cmutual.com.au (Tony Jambu) writes:
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|>In article <1994Jul1.070918.14492_at_arbi.Informatik.Uni-Oldenburg.DE>,
|>Andreas.Bartelt_at_arbi.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de (Andreas Bartelt) writes:
|>> Compared to a year ago the traffic in this newsgroup 'comp.databases.oracle'
|>> is very high now.
|>>
|>> Maybe it is more effective to split this newsgroup. E.g.
|>> .oracle.admin
|>> .oracle.appl (or .programming)
|>>
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|>Gee I am surprised with the number of responses to this thread. I asked
|>the same question about 2 months ago and only got 2 personal emails about
|>it.
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|>There is also a newsgroup/forum on Compuserve. This forum is also broken
|>down into smaller groups like the one suggested below .
|>
|>oracle.general or oracle.misc
|>oracle.performance
|>oracle.dba-admin
|>oracle.sys-admin
|>oracle.desktop
|>oracle.3rdparty-tools
|>oracle.networking
|>oracle.appl or oracle.development or oracle.tools or oracle.programming
|>oracle.jobs
|>
|>I am willing to take a tally of the votes for and against the splitting of
|>this group and have it summarised. Lets leave out the actual sub groups
|>out until we know for sure that the general consensus is to split it up.
|>
|>
|>Because this is a COMP newsgroup there are procedured to take and follow
|>like there has to be a minimum number of votes and a certain % or yeah
|>votes. Would you like me to request a 'CFV' call for votes? I am willing
|>to take this offline and if it is approved, we could then decide what sub
|>newsgroups there should be.
|>
|>ta
|>tony
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You want to split this newsgroup, well, BUT GIVE US STRONG ARGUMENTS TO DO THIS! Presently I've never read other things that : "Yes it's a good idea" ?????????? VERY, VERY LIGHT LIKE AN ARGUMENT !!!

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