From: bkssmith@thunder.LakeheadU.Ca (BKS Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games
Subject: Re: Proposed RFD: c.s.i.p.g reorg...  LONG!
Keywords: RFD split group
Date: 23 Jan 1993 05:09:11 GMT
Organization: Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ont., Canada

In article <1jlusdINNnep@MINERVA.CIS.YALE.EDU> randall-joshua@yale.edu (Joshua E. Randall) writes:
>The "for sale" issue is a bit confusing.  First of all,
>there already is a group appropriate for selling computer
>games, namely 'misc.forsale.computer.other'.  Second, there
>really aren't all that many posts about selling games, so a
>group under c.s.i.p.g would be a bit of a waste.  Third,
>alas, people will continue to post their for sale messages
>to *any* group they think is relevant, so that they can get
>the widest distribution.
>
>The solution?  Don't create a c.s.i.p.g.forsale group.  Just
>live with the few postings, and maybe gently suggest (via
>E-mail, of course) that people post to m.f.c.o.
	For the most part, I agree with you.  Personally, I don't mind
	when people post forsale messages in a newsgroup relevant to
	the items being sold because they rarely have follow-ups and so
	they don't start long, drawn-out irrelevant threads.  If we
	allow them to be posted here, they could probably go in 
	the c.s.i.p.g.misc group.
>
>
>Someone else was saying that we could divide c.s.i.p.g up
>the way Computer Gaming World divides their games.  This is
>actually not a bad idea either.  Looking at my latest issue
>of CGW I see that they have the following groups:
>
>ADventure - Indy, Monkey Island, Quest for Glory
>Role Playing - Ultima Underworld, Eye of the Beholder, Might & Magic
>SImulation - Red Baron, Aces of the Pacific, Falcon 3.0
>STrategy - Civilization, Solitaire's Journey, Tetris
>WarGames - Perfect General, Warlords, Second Front
>ACtion - Wing Commander, Castle Wolfenstein 3-D, Lemmings
>SPorts - Hardball, Links, Jack Nicklaus Signature Golf
	I like this idea too.  If this is too many groups, perhaps
	Strategy and Wargames could be combined into the .strategic 
	group that others have mentioned and since Sports seems to have
	a fairly low volume, perhaps it could go in .misc as well.
	I also think that .announce is unnecessary, since any 
	announcements could also go into .misc. This leaves only 6
	newsgroups: .rpg, .adventure, .simulation (.flightsim?),
	.strategic, .action and .misc. Perhaps a seventh, .advocacy,
	is necessary to send people to (as punishment :-)) if they
	wish to restart that old recurring nightmare, the piracy
	debate. 

	Of course you realize that no matter how well we organize this
	split, there will always be people who post in the wrong group.  
	For example, when I started up today, there were 97 new messages.
	Of these, 27 were related to the new 3DBenchmark program, either
	requests for it or a posting of test results on different 
	processors and video cards.  Do these really belong here? Aren't
	these the kind of issues that comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware was 
	supposed to deal with?

	(I shall now quietly step down from the soapbox to give 
	someone else a turn...)
 
						BKS
 
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