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In article <40rnmo$5sm@boris.eden.com> DvdS@eden.com  (David Vanderschel) writes:

   What I am inferring
   that is that participants in the existing groups for GNU emacs are
   willing to stay where they are and do not really care what happens to
   comp.editors.  If this is the case, then I think it should be stated
   more clearly than a simple "Don't split comp.editors."

Like `remove comp.editors'?

   It strikes me that there is a problem with comp.emacs that deserves to
   be addressed.  comp.emacs is *mostly* about GNU emacs.  However, there
   are other editors with "emacs" in their names that are occasionally
   mentioned in comp.emacs.
 
Fair enough, 

   These posts are just noise to those of us who
   are only interested in GNU emacs.

That is not true. There's ample and hearty discussion of Flu Emacs and
other cheap derivates.

   Furthermore, they are not likely
   very effective for the posters, because those most likely to be of
   help are not likely to be willing to plough through the dominant GNU
   emacs theme.  It would make sense to me to split comp.emacs into, say,

My estimate is that only half of the posts is GNU Emacs specific, the
rest is of general interest or specific to some other implemetation.

   comp.emacs-gnu, and
   comp.emacs-other

Whats wrong with comp.emacs and gnu.emacs.*?

   (Though the 'others' might resent being lumped that way relative to
   GNU emacs, there certainly does not currently seem to be enough
   traffic for the others to justify further splits.)

Go talk to the folk in comp.emacs.xemacs, they'll tell you otherwise.

   Regards,
     David V.

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