CALL FOR DISCUSSION: Give comp.unix control to the wizards

[Jim Burns]

in article <430 at nyet.UUCP>, pete at nyet.UUCP (Pete Hardie) says:

> The purpose of renaming was to improve the indexing value of the newsgroup
> name.  Before, c.u.w was getting the newbie questions regularly, about
> every topic.  Now, they at least won't try to post to 'internals' when
> they have a question about rm'ing a file that starts with a '-'.

I've refrained from joining this thread till now because I prefer to post
technical information, and not opinions, but his may be of interest: With
the proliferation of newsgroups, I barely know what newsgroup I'm in when
I do a followup - If I know the answer, I post. The previous organization
was quite different. I knew I was reading/posting in the presence of
greatness w/c.u.w., and among the neophytes w/c.u.q., and tailored my
decision to post accordingly. Now, it's all one homogenous blend. We're
even getting folowup postings in c.u.i. today about where to find header
files depending on whether you are using Ansi C or not. This would never
have appreared in c.u.w.
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BURNS,JIM
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