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Aihuxl.116 fa.unix-wizards utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!mhtsa!ihnss!ihps3!ih1ap!ihuxp!ihuxo!ihuxn!ihuxl!jej Thu Oct 29 02:22:37 1981 whither unix-wizards? Subject: volume 'problems' etc. on unix-wizards

Concerning JNC@MIT-XX's points:

Occasional duplication of messages would seem to me hard to avoid given the propagation delays in netnews travel from machine to machine. I don't know how much delay digestification would introduce, nor whether people would be bothered by it. (I have to admit that the fourth or fifth copy of the dsw(1, obs.) manual page left me pretty cold, though.)

Not everybody is interested in EXACTLY the same things. Even if one accepts that unix-wizards be split, say, between flamers about the user interface and the folks who trade obscure system call hacks, I'd think that the latter would nevertheless include a few folks who might be interested in a C compiler for the 68000. A newsgroup serves the interests of more than one person.

unix-wizards could use being split up, or, from a different point of view, non-wizards (like me) should get off this news group. (I can't say that arcane details of Unix interest me much--I'm more interested in the Unix- related 'flaming' that seems to end up here because no other news group is commonly recognized as read by people interested specifically in Unix.)

Also, putting subject headings on all submissions would be nice; this has been suggested before.

I think I'll stay tuned long enough to find out what the conventions appear to be, and then get out of whatever groups contain descriptions of funny things about the second parameter of foo(chapter bar)...

James Jones (ihuxl!jej)

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