Sure is quiet

[Phil Dye]

[Crossposted to solent.net, for anyone that reads that but not solent.chat]

In <32e674c...@news.ftech.net> rp...@stilling.ftech.co.uk (Roy Stilling) writes:

>ke...@alchemy-ims.co.uk (Kerry Dye) wrote:

>> Interestingly uk.local.southwest is really busy, as are the
>> birmingham.* groups. Solent people don't seem to be quite so chatty...

>Perhaps we should go "mainstream". uk.local.solent anyone?

Whilst that may increase interest it would have the big
drawback of being subject to the uk.* rules. That would mean RFD's,
and then either fasttrack creation or a CFV. At least at the moment
we can do whatever we want, simply by consensus.

I don't know about anyone else, but I don't see how additional
bureaucracy will help...

Perhaps there are two many solent.* groups; there's only birmingham.misc.
How about a reorganisation of solent.*, to say something like;

solent.announce - Announcements of interest to the Solent (UK) region
solent.chat - Anything relevant to the Solent (UK) region

(Perhaps a name other than solent.announce; that seems to attract spam
crossposted to all *.announce groups?)

Hence removing;
solent.comp - Are there any Solent *specific* computer issues?
solent.forsale - Usually attracts non-Solent related spam
solent.sport - The few posts can easily fit in solent.chat without being
off-topic
solent.net - ditto
solent.events - Overlaps with solent.announce
solent.general - Overlaps with solent.chat
solent.test - Plenty of other test groups around

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[Roni Glaser]

> Hence removing;
> solent.comp - Are there any Solent *specific* computer issues?
> solent.forsale - Usually attracts non-Solent related spam
> solent.sport - The few posts can easily fit in solent.chat without being
> off-topic
> solent.net - ditto
> solent.events - Overlaps with solent.announce
> solent.general - Overlaps with solent.chat
> solent.test - Plenty of other test groups around
>
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>Phil Dye

Sounds like a good idea.

Roni

[Chris Isbell]

Phil Dye <p...@tcp.net.uk> wrote:

>[Crossposted to solent.net, for anyone that reads that but not solent.chat]
>
>In <32e674c...@news.ftech.net> rp...@stilling.ftech.co.uk (Roy Stilling) writes:
>
>>ke...@alchemy-ims.co.uk (Kerry Dye) wrote:
>
>>> Interestingly uk.local.southwest is really busy, as are the
>>> birmingham.* groups. Solent people don't seem to be quite so chatty...
>
>>Perhaps we should go "mainstream". uk.local.solent anyone?

Good idea. Perhaps it would stop some of the Americans with little
sense of geography from posting quite so much. ;-) Would you be
willing to propose this to the UK Usenet committee?

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