split this newsgroup?

[Ionel Simionescu]

Max M. Stalnaker <stalnaker at acm.org> wrote in message
news:LHG14.143$0l4.2672 at typ21.nn.bcandid.com...
| The volume on this newgroup might justify splitting the newgroup.
Comments?


The volume itself is not a reason enough.

This newsgroup is the agora: the place were everybody come to discuss or
take note to latest developments. Or just ask a question when there is no
way to get the answer elsewhere.

If one feels a need to focus, there are the SIGs, each with its own mailing
list.
But this meeting place is naturally going to stay heterogeneous and large.

Maybe it would be a good idea, however, to move (or duplicate) the SIG
forums on the news format, thus opening them up to a larger audience. This
may cast out a more accurate representation of the activity going on in the
Python community. (And clutter less some mailboxes.)

Moreover, because SIGs typically carry more elaborate contributions, a move
to NNTP will serve the image of Python better. (On c.l.py there is no month
without less than 2 loong holy wars leaving scars and bloody threads
behind... :-)

If SIG specific newsgroups are introduced, than messages would flow more
naturally to their right audience.



ionel