whither unix-wizards?

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Subject: volume 'problems' etc. on unix-wizards

Concerning JNC at MIT-XX's points:

Occasional duplication of messages would seem to me hard to avoid
given the propagation delays in netnews travel from machine to machine.
I don't know how much delay digestification would introduce, nor whether
people would be bothered by it. (I have to admit that the fourth or fifth
copy of the dsw(1, obs.) manual page left me pretty cold, though.)

Not everybody is interested in EXACTLY the same things. Even if one accepts
that unix-wizards be split, say, between flamers about the user interface
and the folks who trade obscure system call hacks, I'd think that the latter
would nevertheless include a few folks who might be interested in a C compiler
for the 68000. A newsgroup serves the interests of more than one person.

unix-wizards could use being split up, or, from a different point of view,
non-wizards (like me) should get off this news group. (I can't say that
arcane details of Unix interest me much--I'm more interested in the Unix-
related 'flaming' that seems to end up here because no other news group
is commonly recognized as read by people interested specifically in Unix.)

Also, putting subject headings on all submissions would be nice;
this has been suggested before.

I think I'll stay tuned long enough to find out what the conventions
appear to be, and then get out of whatever groups contain descriptions
of funny things about the second parameter of foo(chapter bar)...

				James Jones (ihuxl!jej)