Path: cdrom.com!barrnet.net!decwrl!hookup!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!jussieu.fr!univ-lyon1.fr!swidir.switch.ch!scsing.switch.ch!news.dfn.de!zeus.rbi.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de!terra.wiwi.uni-frankfurt.de!news.th-darmstadt.de!zib-berlin.de!zrz.TU-Berlin.DE!netmbx.de!Germany.EU.net!EU.net!uunet!sequent!guardian.up.edu!not-for-mail From: jiml@up.edu (Jim Little) Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom Subject: Re: new hierarchy for alt.cd-rom Date: 7 Jun 1994 14:23:27 -0700 Organization: School of Engineering, University of Portland, Portland OR Lines: 47 Distribution: alt Message-ID: <2t2ogf$8c@upsun17.up.edu> References: <9406071020.AA06741@ibuki.tdomcu16> NNTP-Posting-Host: upsun17.up.edu In article , Dave Hayden wrote: >Koji Kodama writes: > >>To supporters of restructuring "alt.cd-rom": > >>> In article >>> anagld!decode!viamar!kmembry "Kirk Membry" writes: >>> >>> > We need to clean up this group. I'm tired of reading 7 million posts >>> > about discs for sale, discs for trade, etc. >>> > >>> > why not have a alt.cd-rom.forsale section for all of this "business" > >>While we're at it, I'd like to see the so-called "Adult" references >>weeded out of this group as well. > >Perhaps we should borrow from the well organized CDROM forum on >compuserve which has, among others, the following subsections: > MAC Titles (discussion about specific cd-roms for the Mac) > PC Titles (ditto for the PC) > Drives (installation woes, reviews, recommendataions about drives) > Marketplace (press releases, for sale/trade, catalogs, etc) > General > (Other sections I can't remember this early in the morning). I would like to suggest: alt.cd-rom.games - requests for help, hints, comments alt.cd-rom.adult - all "adult" CD discussion alt.cd-rom.announce - moderated, reviews and product announcements alt.cd-rom.marketplace - for-sale and wanted posts alt.cd-rom.hardware - technical issues alt.cd-rom.misc - miscellaneous discussion, including software that doesn't fall into the 'games' or 'adult' category I was considering just alt.cd-rom.software instead of the .games and .adult categories, but games and adult CDs take up quite a bit of space here. There doesn't seem to be much discussion about CD compilations or other software, so I've lumped all of it in .misc with everything else. Comments? -Jim Little (jiml@up.edu)