Re: Proposal: new groups in comp.sys.mac.programmer hierarchy

In comp.sys.mac.programmer.misc matt neuburg <matt@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 
> Simon Fraser <smfr@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 
>> This is an informal suggestion for the creation of several new
>> groups in the comp.sys.mac.programmer hierarchy. It is a precursor
>> to a more formal Request For Discussion (RFD) on the creation of
>> these groups.
>> 
>> 
>> PROPOSED NEW GROUPS
>> 
>> comp.sys.mac.programmer.carbon
>>     Programming using the Carbon APIs on Mac OS X
>> 
>> comp.sys.mac.programmer.cocoa
>>     Programming using the Cocoa APIs on Mac OS X
>> 
>> comp.sys.mac.programmer.xcode      
>>     Apple's Xcode development environment
> 
> Traffic on comp.sys.mac.programmer.help is extremely light (most of the
> discussion being over on Apple's lists, which already make the suggested
> division). Usenet is definitely not the mainstream place for this stuff
> any more. So perhaps there's no very good reason not to leave things as
> they are...?

I agree. The only reason to split these things up into topics is if there 
were so much traffic in the groups that exist that people couldn't filter 
it all out and just read the stuff they wanted. Somebody who was 
Cocoa-centric might find it too frustrating to ignore all of the Carbon 
talk if it was all piled together, but would happily subscribe to 
csmp.cocoa.

But traffic is light, and the people who do manage to discover the 
newsgroups tend to be of the mentally flexible types who can consider 
using both Carbon and Cocoa. I anticipate that creating separate groups 
will either lead to the new ones being ignored, or everybody who subscibes

to the old ones subscribing to all of the new ones, with no net gain.

-- 
Michael Ash
Rogue Amoeba Software