Message-ID: <69d02e3c@news.ausics.net> From: not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) Subject: Re: Old geeks and thread drift Newsgroups: alt.unix.geeks,comp.os.linux.misc,alt.comp.os.windows-11 References: <10qobvo$1ut20$1@dont-email.me> <10qoqpa.116c.1@ID-201911.user.individual.net> User-Agent: tin/2.6.5-20251224 ("Glenury") (Linux/2.4.31 (i586)) NNTP-Posting-Host: news.ausics.net Date: 4 Apr 2026 07:16:44 +1000 Organization: Ausics - https://newsgroups.ausics.net Lines: 51 X-Complaints: abuse@ausics.net Path: csiph.com!news.bbs.nz!news.ausics.net!not-for-mail Xref: csiph.com alt.unix.geeks:335 comp.os.linux.misc:85316 alt.comp.os.windows-11:31098 In comp.os.linux.misc Carlos E.R. wrote: > On 2026-04-03 16:45, Frank Slootweg wrote: >> [Followup to alt.unix.geeks ignored.] >> Lars Poulsen wrote: >>> I love the banter between the dozen or so people that make up most of >>> these chats, but it seriously clutters up comp.os.linux.misc and >>> alt.comp.os.windows-11 to the point that they are practically unusable >>> for the technical questions that they are supposed to serve, and for >>> which I also do occasionally need them. >>> >>> I *really* wish people would move all the wildly off-topic chatter to >>> alt.unix.geeks *as soon as they go off-topic. I also with they would >>> change the subject line when the follow-up becomes completely unrelated >>> to what the subject line says. >> >> I think it's not logical if Windows users, who are a part of said >> audience, have to move to a Unix group. > > It is an empty group, there were no messages there for years. Just a > convenient place by agreement, instead of creating a new group. The sad thing is occasionally I peek into the huge threads in comp.os.linux.misc that I start always marking as read once they go too OT, and discover about 500 posts down people have actually started talking about something I'm interested in. Often I'm subscribed to a group dedicated to that topic which has been dead for years, but here people _are_ talking about it in a place I'm unlikely to find, and where I won't reply because it only commits me to wading through hundreds more OT posts later to find the responses (plus it's just contributing to the problem for other people). At least it would be more organised if such talk was separated from Linux questions, but it'd be real nice if people actually started using groups relevent to the topics again. A hopeless dream, I know. >> Anyway, moving threads to another group hardly ever - if ever - works. > > It does, albeit slowly :-) Although cross-posts from comp.os.linux.misc to the Linux advocacy group a little while back only added a whole lot more noise coming back in the other direction for a time, from my perspective. At least an empty group is low-risk for that, although expecting Windows 11 users to post to a Unix group seems like quite a stretch. -- __ __ #_ < |\| |< _#