Who needs can.usrgroup? (I do, I do).

[Tony Olekshy]

Our newsgroups file contains can.ai, can.general, can.jobs, can.politics,
can.sun-stroke, can.usrgroup, and can.uucp.  Ignoring ai and sun-stroke, it
seems to me that a broad interpretation of the *names* of these groups is
quite useful:

	can.jobs	Canadian misc.jobs.{offers,resumes,misc}.
	can.politics	Political issues of interest to Canadians.
	can.usrgroup	User Group issues of interest to Canadians.
	can.uucp	UUCP Network issues of interest to Canadians.
	can.general	Other issues of interest to Canadians.

When /usr/group/edmonton publishes its year-in-review article, I think it
should go in can.usrgroup.  If you take can.usrgroup away, we will have to
post it to can.general.  Similarly, can.usrgroup is the place to discuss user
groups sharing visiting speakers, having BoF at various conferences, etc.

The above groups seem to cover the traffic patterns quite nicely, except for
one glaring omission: a place for technology questions, requests for help, and
discussions.  I suggest can.tech-help (no wait, that's awful), or equivalent,
to cover things like operating systems, programming languages, hardware, etc.

A final puzzler: although I haven't seen any traffic to justify it, why don't
we have a can.class-ad for a Canadian misc.{wanted,forsale}?  I'd check it
every day, and unsubscribe from the misc.forsale group.

I'm sure I could write more on this, but I'll leave it up to you to ask me to.
Of, course, these are just my opinions, not those of /usr/group/edmonton.

--
Yours, etc., Tony Olekshy (...!alberta!oha!tony or tony at oha.UUCP).