Re: Lets split

[seas.gwu.edu!mfeldman@uunet.uu.net (Michael Feldman)]

In article <1992Dec17.084727.26313@sunbim.be> accs1@bagheera.mumath writes:
>In article 62879@mimsy.umd.edu, alex@cs.umd.edu (Alex Blakemore) writes:
>>make comp.lang.ada obsolete and create a small set of groups instead.
>>
>>  some suggestions
>>
>>    comp.lang.advocacy   - for the flame wars
>>    comp.lang.programmer - for discussions of design/development Ada language
 issues
>>                           (or comp.lang.technical or better name?)
>>    comp.lang.announce   - moderated, low volume important announcements
>>                           of meetings, products, standards, new mandates :) 
etc
>>    comp.lang.misc       - catch all
>>
>>this works well in the NeXT groups which I've been reading lately
>>they have huge flame fests between Objective-C and C++ but confine
>>them to the advocacy group.
>>
>>anyone interested or familiar with how to do this?
Usenet has a balloting procedure, but I haven't the foggiest idea how it
works. No doubt there is a bewsgroup to post this to, but I don't know
that either...
>>
>
>I like the idea and the division as proposed sounds reasonable.
I will also vote yes when the ballot arrives. Long overdue!

Mike Feldman