🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <1998091314570710710@thebeast.demon.co.uk>,
thebeast@nospam.demon.co.uk (Steve Rogers) wrote:

[in response to:]

>> So basically the demon.tech.* groups
>> are for Demon customers who have platform specific issues which are
>> nothing to do with Demon!
>
>And there's the rub, because uk.comp.sys.mac is also for Demon customers
>[and everyone else] who have platform specific issues which are nothing
>[particularly] to do with Demon.
>
>Therefore demon.tech.mac is merely an obsolete, crippled duplicate of
>u.c.s.m - because non-Demon people aren't reading it although it is of
>use & interest to them.
>
>No big deal, but for the sake of tidiness...

Tidiness seems an inappropriate concept here.  All sub-groups are contained
in groups higher in the hierarchy.  So, I'll keep my house tidy and even
check on the street but the whole town...?

Nothing in this group has seemed to me to be 'obsolete, crippled'.  And I
have been a long time reader and sometimes contributor.  What we have is a
collection of informative and specifically focused contributors (perhaps
because they are Demon customers).  Spam and trolling are low.  The whole
enterprise is enjoyable and not-too-high-a-volume.  I have seen other
groups grow to such a size that I have been reduced to collecting headers
only, and then to restricting collection of *headers* to a manageable size,
and finally to disabling collection.  

I hope we keep as we are and I am not cross-posting this.  I don't wish to
invite a barrage of contributions which wander from here to here (some
well-meaning, others frivolous) which has happened in another NG.

Keith


Keith Crook
keith@valperga.demon.co.uk