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From: rlr@pyuxn.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.news.group,net.music
Subject: Re: net.music should be split
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Date: Tue, 7-Feb-84 12:12:42 EST
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Posted: Tue Feb  7 12:12:42 1984
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Let's take a close look at some of the reasons subgroups have been formed
in the past.  As Orlando has pointed out, there are a few groups with
subgroups out there.  Many times it was done for equally bogus reasons as
the proposed net.religion and net.music splittings.

In most of the cases where the subgrouping was reasonable, the subgroup served
to isolate a particular *topic*, rather than a particular *taste*.  For
instance, net.jokes.d is for discussion of jokes rather than jokes themselves.
It would be a different matter if someone suggested net.jokes.lightbulb,
net.jokes.helenkeller, net.jokes.knockknock, net.jokes.licenseplates&errormsgs,
etc.  It's one thing to separate net.games from net.games.video, but quite
another to create net.movies AND net.movies.color, net.movies.b&w,
net.movies.3d, etc.

The problem is not that there is not enough interest in a given topic, such
as classical music (there obviously is), but that there's no reason not
to submit such articles to net.music.

I really don't like the idea of newsgroups to begin with, but if we're
going to have them it's counterproductive to have one for every person's
individual taste, which is what we'd be approaching.  I prefer the concept
of keywords, but the netnews stands now it is difficult to control their
usage.  What's really needed is a way for people to look at a list of
articles available to them in a given newsgroup and 'x' off the ones they
don't want to read by subject (perhaps through vnews or notes).

What it boils down to is this---I hear people saying "There's too much
noise (??) in xxx newsgroup, and we would like to see a separate group
for articles on the yyy type of xxx, so let's make a subgroup".  If you
don't like the way a newsgroup "looks" and you'd like to see more articles
on your subject of interest within the newsgroup topic, THEN SUBMIT SOME!!!!
This sounds a lot like people who complain about the government but don't
vote!!
-- 
Pardon me for breathing...
	Rich Rosen    pyuxn!rlr