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In article <klg.715279663@statsci> klg@statsci.com (Kevin L. Gross) writes:
>davidb@zeus.ce.washington.edu (David W. Barts) writes:
>
>   In article <1992Aug30.211125.946@jazzie.com>, sds@jazzie.com (Sean Shapira) writes:
>   > [ edited ]
>   > Some might say, "Isn't that what seattle.general is used for?"
>   > Yes, but if seattle.misc existed, the content of seattle.general
>   > might focus just a bit more on topics of "general" interest to
>   > the Seattle community....  Crossposts would be fine, especially
>   > if the followups were directed to seattle.misc.  Personally, I
>   > would put seattle.misc to use quite regularly.
>   > 
>   > Comments, anyone?
>   
>   I think that this naming strategy would just confuse people.  It would
>   result in a lot of crossposted material (or incorrectly posted stuff).
>   
>   If the traffic volume on seattle.general gets large enough, I think it
>   is a better idea to create groups pertaining to the topic(s) that are
>   responsible for most of the volume.  Currently, the only topic I can
>   think of that would fit this description would be "seattle.politics".
>   
>   --
>   David Barts  N5JRN                      UW Civil Engineering, FX-10
>   davidb@ce.washington.edu                Seattle, WA  98195
>
>I wholeheartedly agree with David. Just scattering the postings to
>multiple groups would result in a lot of incorrect postings. The creation
>of seattle.politics would be the obvious volume cutter. 

Or seattle.callerid!  ;-)


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