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Re: Should we split this group? (was Re: Lift the "ban" :-)) [message #5998 is a reply to message #5902]

Thu, 14 March 1996 00:00

Sergei Senin
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Registered: February 1996

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zawodny@arbd0.larc.nasa.gov (Joseph M Zawodny) wrote:
> I think that we are all missing the obvious solution here, namely that we
> split the group into comp.lang.rsi-idl (I think comp.lang.idl is taken)
> and comp.lang.pvwave. The two have diverged sufficiently in the last few
> years that I think there is little reason to logically associate them with
> the same group. In this way Company A can still snoop on Company B's
> group, but they cannot claim that Company B is advertising to a captive
> audience of Company A users. Let's face it, this group is 95% IDL related
> right now. So, let's kick the PV-WAVE users out on their own. I'm sure
> they'll stick around after the split, since this (IDL) group has the
> knowledge base and can solve a large number of PV-WAVE problems/questions.
>
> So what do you think?
> --
> Dr. Joseph M. Zawodny KO4LW NASA Langley Research Center
> E-mail: J.M.Zawodny@LaRC.NASA.gov MS-475, Hampton VA, 23681-0001

That's a very good solution IMHO. And we don't loose anything - It wouldn't be
difficult to monitor both groups, since traffic here is low :-(

--
Sergei
ss@ee.port.ac.uk, http://www.ee.port.ac.uk:80/~ss-www/WAVE/

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		Should we split this group? (was Re: Lift the "ban" :-)) By: zawodny on Thu, 14 March 1996 00:00
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