Re: Split c.d.o - Straw poll results
Date: 1996/03/22
Message-ID: <4itqsi$egu_at_ns1.its.it>#1/1
vijia_at_pop.jaring.my (SV Singam) wrote:
>The total number of voters is now 68. Only 4 more people voted!
Ok for
c.d.o.server c.d.o.client c.d.o.sql c.d.o.misc (*not* catch-all)
- BUT ****
>I fear that we may not achieve the numbers required for a successful
>split. Please take some time off to send in your vote. Let your
>friends and colleagues know about this straw poll.
Also, remember that all the charter for the new newsgroups is to be posted to news.announce.newgroups and that all further discussion has to be carried out in news.groups *only*. I, for one, do not read regularly that group (in fact, my news server doesn't provide the news hierarchy :), so all voters should be prepared to subscribe to AND read news.* in order to partecipate in the RFD, CFV etc etc.
>In spite of my calls to keep the number of proposed groups down,
>people are still proposing more sub-groups. I am therefore removing
>all the peripheral groups that have received little support. Hopefully
>this will help garner more support for the popular groups.
The rationale behind new newsgroups is that the subject is far too wide to be handled as a single newsgroup AND that people will behave correctly and won't crosspost to the whole comp.databases.oracle.* hierarchy.
In fact, experience tell us this is not true - let's be optimistic - and crossposts are 5 out of 10 articles. Look what REGULARLY happens to comp.infosystems.www.*.* groups. So, splitting and having a newsgroup hierarchy too detailed and crosspost is a loss (see also WOMBAT). Also, I can't understand why this audience wants to split c.d.o, but still keep the catch-all group. Hey, do you really want to split, or not ?
What the discussion here seem to miss is that splitting a newsgroup is not only a matter of the readers of that group. In fact, as the whole USENET community is affected by the new system- and disk- load that a split is likely to cause, you should not be surprised that the NO votes could well exceed the YES count. This is especially true (my opinion only) if
- you split in more than, say, 5 different subgroups
- you stick with the idea of the catch-all group
>The results so far...
are not so encouraging.
> SV Singam
>Minden, Penang
>Truth, viewed from any angle, remains truth.
Except when you look the other way.
Mauro Fossa
fossa_at_its.it
Standard disclaimers apply. Received on Fri Mar 22 1996 - 00:00:00 CET