From: bjoerns@stud.cs.uit.no (Bjoern Stabell)
Subject: Re: Splitting the group (somewhat long)
Organization: University of Tromsoe, Norway
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 00:57:19 GMT

In article <1992Aug14.090628.58149@cc.usu.edu>, sl859@cc.usu.edu writes:
] > The idea of making sure VGA type posts have VGA in the header works fine.
] > My kill fill zaps everything w/ VGA/PC/IBM in the header. It's all those
] > mode y posts that went by......
] 
]       You know this "inconvenience" has brought tears to my eyes. (sob.)
] I weep for thee.  It is so hard to manually skip those messages.  I just 
] feel soooooo awful, this compelling argument definately has changed my 
] attitude about this whole catastrophe!
] 
] P.S.  Am I the only one in this whole group who has the capacity to READ 
] the subject headings and SKIP over those that don't interest me.  I have
] tried to offer other solutions, but some people just seem so bull-headed
] that they won't rest until ALL machine specific posts are eliminated from
] the entire World!  Well to you, I stand like a PATRIOT and argue my 
] POSTING RIGHTS!!!


        Please  get this  straight,    this group was   created  for
        discussions on   non-HW    specific  games  algorithms   and
        techniques.   If you don't  understand  why the  majority(*)
        react to VGA specific issues  being  brought up here,  you'd
        better review your net.understanding.

        Well, I'll  do it for  you *sigh* -   the enormous amount of
        information spewed into the  net.world  via News has  to  be
        organized, currently  this  is done  by partinoning  it into
        newsgroups.  Another approach would  be  to put keywords  in
        the  subject  that identified  where  this  posting belonged
        (like  someone  suggested we did   here).   Why not use  the
        appropriate newsgroup instead?  If  there is  no appropriate
        newsgroup, create one!

        Using  the   appropriate newsgroup   is very important,  try
        starting   a  discussion     in alt.sources   for   instance
        (alt.sources.d is the appropriate newsgroup  for that if you
        didn't know) - you'll be flamed to  death.  If you're in the
        wrong group, you certainly have no "posting rights".

        PC people, as everybody else, has  to abide by the net.laws.
        I   didn't beleive you  needed a  reminder of  this, but the
        recent discussion has changed my mind.

        This really  shouldn't be a discussion on  which HW to allow
        (NO Amiga <-> PC war), NO HW specific questions allowed.  HW
        specific questions are  covered  in the  comp.sys.*.hardware
        newsgroups.  Surely,  you PC guys  and  girls don't need  to
        hijack a group for your VGA/SoundBlaster/whatever questions?
        (If you don't have an appropriate newsgroup, you've only got
        yourself to blame.)


        flame(ON);

*)      I couldn't resist - someone  stated that PC programmers were
        the majority in this group.  Why so?  Because they annoy the
        most,  because they have most  problems or because they need
        everything repeated 3 times before they get it?

        Do  you really think  that there  are  no Suns in  the world
        because  nobody  has asked how to  play  their samples on  a
        Sun?

        flame(OFF);



PS!     Someone mentioned comp.lang.c  was infected too, as  I don't
        read comp.lang.c I'll   have  to take  their words   for it.
        Could   this indicate that PC  users  are having a hard time
        locating the correct newsgroup  or  is it  a sign that  they
        don't care where they post?

        This posting has hopefully clarified   WHY you have to  take
        care  when selecting the   right newsgroup.  That leaves the
        process of selecting the right  newsgroup.  I can't see  how
        this should be so hard, read the  FAQ's and decide (speaking
        of which, does this group have a FAQ?).



Regards,
-- 
                                                  Bjoern Stabell
                                                  University of Tromsoe
                                                  (+47) 83 44 053 / 83 75 164
                                                  bjoerns@staff.cs.uit.no