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From: rstevew@armory.com (Richard Steven Walz)
Subject: Re: testing the waters for split of comp.robotics
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Date: Wed, 31 Aug 1994 12:57:48 GMT
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In article <CvDrqo.7Kn@news.cis.umn.edu>,
Dean Hougen <hougen@kilo.cs.umn.edu> wrote:
>In article <Cv3LJp.HIL@osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu> gcouger@olesun.okstate.edu (Gordon Couger) writes:
>>This group is much much too small to split. 
>
>I pointed out in another post that size has nothing to do with splitting.
>If you haven't seen that post, let me know and I'll restate my arguments.
>In the mean time, perhaps you could explain why you think a group must be
>large to be split.
>
>>IMHO most of the discussions are
>>of interst to most of the group. 
>
>Even if you are correct in this, it does not mean that there is not a
>segment of the robotics community that is not well served by the 
>current group.  I think these people exist, but many do not read the
>current group.
>
>>Spliting the group would IMHO result in
>>many post being cross posted and increasing the precived traffic insted of
>>decreasing it. 
>
>If the split is clear, then there is no more likely to be excessive
>cross-posting between the two halves of the former group than there
>is between any two groups on the net.
>
>>If you are having difficulty with the number of post I 
>>would suggust that you get a threaded news reader such as strn I thing
>>you will find that the time you spend reading stuff you arn't interested
>>in will go way down.
>
>I use a threaded news reader.  The situation is still lousy.  But as
>long as you brought up the point of quality news readers, let me 
>point out that a good news reader will catch cross-posted articles,
>so even if you are right about a split causing many articles to be
>cross-posted, there will be no perceived increase in traffic as each
>article will only appear once.
>>
>>IMHO
>>Gordon
>
>Frankly, I don't understand the resistance to change among people in
>an advanced technical field like this one.
>
>Dean Hougen
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Dean, Please describe what in the world you're talking about! I see NO
theory people here!!! They clearly wish to be elsewhere, because they DON'T
POST HERE!!!!! I'd like it if they DID!!! I do NOT, however, think that you
need to "build it and they will come" or something stupid!!! They have
other groups they hang out on, AI oriented, neural-fuzzy oriented, and game
theory folks, mostly mathematicians. I wouldn't mind hearing from them, but
they aren't here now, and group duplication is making finding ANYTHING on
the net problematic!!! This group has about 30 posts a day as it IS!!!
Hopefully it will improve, but show me your "theorists"!!!! Otherwise, I
