From: hades@coos.dartmouth.edu (Hades)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics
Subject: Re: RAC SPLIT:NO!!!
Date: 8 Apr 92 18:43:03 GMT
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

rawdon@cabrales.cs.wisc.edu (Michael Rawdon) writes:

>In <1992Apr7.184433.29998@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> hades@coos.dartmouth.edu (Hades) writes:
>>    But what about the people who have had to stop reading the group
>>because of its size. Rec.arts.comics does receive an average of 140
>>posts per day,

>Quite frankly, I think that this is chickenfeed.  I wade through
>rec.arts.comics in a few minutes with the nn newsreader.  I don't even use
>a killfile.

    Actually, I do precicely the same thing. But I wasn't speaking about
myself in this instance. NN basically made it possible for me to hold
down a regular job and still read the groups that I want to read. Since
I started using it 2 years ago, the only lines in my kill file, other
then some rediculous subjects on alt.sex, are permanent name selects, so
I can see what certain people are talking about.

>>		and for some people who would like to read about comics
>>don't have time, or newsreaders with kill file capability to get to the
>>comics that they want to see.

>Then, frankly, I think that they should get better newsreaders.

    I also agree with this statement, but there is no way for us to
do anything about what other sites use for news readers. Persoanlly I
feel sorry for those people that are forced to read news without some
kind of threaded news reader. I remember using rn for almost 5 years
before we got nn at Dartmouth, it wasn't enjoyable, and back then to
follow r.a.c at all took me almost 30 minutes a day.

>>				Personallty I see a reorg, as something
>>that will have to happen eventually, as the readership of UseNet
>>increases.

>Personally I see the installation of more powerful newsreaders at every
>site as something that will have to happen eventually, as the readership
>of Usenet increases.  AND I think that it will have a much greater benefit
>to the readers than splits will.  (And you won't have to listen to me and
>others bitch about it for several months. :-)

    Actually I see the ideal situation being the creation of coherent
sub-hierachies, as needed, and the installation of news reading software
of the class of nn that will allow you read the hierarchies in the form
that you want, either as separate groups or as one big group.

>>	    Eventually rec.arts.comics will find itself back at the top
>>of the list of newsgroups for message traffic. As it is, rec.arts.comics
>>was the 3rd highest rec.arts.* group behind r.a.movies and r.a.tv.soaps
>>for the month of March.

>Get r.a.c up to 300 articles/day and I might agree with you.  Maybe.  140
>articles per day is nothing, IMO.

    This is the same for me. I'm just looking at what will help those
people without the same means as us. Personally a split won't really
change much for me in terms of r.a.c, but I think that it would increase
our readership by allowing those without the advantages of a good
newsreader to read the sub-groups they want, and that is a good thing.


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