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From: lyndon@ncc.UUCP (Lyndon Nerenberg)
Newsgroups: net.sources.d
Subject: Re: How about dividing net.sources into UNIX, IBM-PC & MISC
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Date: Mon, 15-Sep-86 00:59:08 EDT
Article-I.D.: ncc.724
Posted: Mon Sep 15 00:59:08 1986
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Organization: Nexus Computing Corp.,  Edmonton, AB
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Summary: What's the problem?

In article , dmt@mtuxt.UUCP (D.TUTELMAN) writes:
> I'd be opposed (on purely self-interest grounds).
> I have a login on a couple of UNIX hosts, have access to four or five
> PC-compatibles, and never know when a generic (miscellaneous?) C or
> Pascal program will turn up that I can use.  Therefore, I'd have to read
> all three groups.
> 
> Of course, if there's enough sentiment in favor of splitting them, I guess
> I WILL have to read all three groups.
> 
> Dave Tutelman

Am I missing something here? All the discussion going on about having to
read multiple groups makes it sound like people have to move a 50 pound
weight each time they switch groups... :-)

If we have (a) net.sources.foo, (b) net.sources.bar, and (c) net.sources.bletch,
you have a few options:

	1) Subscribe to the group appropriate to your system ONLY,
	2) Subscribe to more than one, based on some arbitrary similarities
	   between the systems (e.g. foo and bletch are both 4.2), or
	3) Subscribe to everything.

Edit your .newsrc to place the net.sources.all groups together, in order
of personal popularity, and just pretend you're reading net.sources...
It's not as if you have to wade through three times as much material; The
amount of material posted shouldn't vary *that* much with the addition of
the new sub-groups. It *will* make life a bit easier for those people who
are only looking for sources specific to whatever is appropriate to that
particular sub-group.

Digression:
A nice trick I saw was to have at(1) do a
	readnews -ln  | mail me
around 0730 or so.
(I know - I don't have at(1) either (sigh))
-- 

Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM) 		  {ihnp4,ubc-vision}!alberta!ncc!lyndon
Systems Group - A Div. of Nexus Computing Corp.  		Envoy_100: Unix