Difference between Usenet hardware groups

 

What's the difference bewteen these PC hardware newsgroups:

  alt.comp.hardware
  alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
  alt.comp.hardware.homebuilt
and even:
  uk.comp.homebuilt

I get tempted to crosspost questions because I don't know how one
these group's readership is different from another.

But ... I don't want to upset people whose newsreader doesn't
suppress posts they've already read in another group.  

Thanks.

Dix


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This post is crossposted for a completely different reason.
So please don't get upset!

 



You will find the same in your public library, viz. several books
on the same topic, say home-built PCs.   There may be obvious
differences between them, as between newsgroups:  but these
differences obey no rule, and to see the differences you have to
read the stuff.  If any general difference can be specified, each
of us has to do that for ourselves, in our own minds.

--
Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)

 

Dixie UK wrote:


It's a matter of quality really, the last group you mention is clearly the
best because it is UK centric :-)
That aside if you are in the UK it's probably best for you as there will
be references to UK suppliers, prices and specifications.

--
Jeff Gaines Damerham Hampshire UK
This is as bad as it can get, but don't bet on it

 


If you don't know the readership of the newsgroup you shouldn't post to
it at all.


--
Bernard Peek
London, UK. DBA, Manager, Trainer & Author.

 


alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt is the most active.  You can crosspost to
uk.comp.homebuilt if they are active with a different readership.