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kevinl@fangorn.cs.monash.edu.au (Kevin Lentin) writes:

>Phil Kernick (phil@ringo.ssn.flinders.edu.au) wrote:
>> I am proposing the creation of a separate newsgroup to handle the Australian
>> Babylon5 news traffic.  Currently it is mostly in aus.sf, with a fair amount
>> of spill-over into aus.sf.star-trek.

>> The proposed name is aus.sf.babylon5.

>Go for it. It's worth it for the separation from the ST group alone!

My vote goes the other way. I oppose the creation of the group for
pretty much my usual reasons:
 
1. aus.sf does not carry a large amount of traffic, with or without
   Babylon 5 discussions. It is hardly a busy group by any stretch
   of the imagination.

2. The vast majority of newsreaders allow the use of killfiles to
   bypass the (small number of) B5 articles in this group.


However, I'm open to future splitting of the group *if* Bablyon 5
proves to be very popular even after series finale and, *if* the traffic
in this group becomes unbearable to the non B5 viewers.

In short, I don't believe in the splitting of the group just for
the sake of splitting. Cases in point: The X-Files and aus.sf.written.
How busy would those groups be now if we had created them last year?

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