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In lugnet.loc.uk, richard.dee@virgin.net (Richard Dee) writes:
> > We should talk (openly, here) about how to come up with a clean solution
> > to the problem of people not finding the loc.uk group (if indeed that is
> > the problem).
>
> One group for each county, country, (count Channel Islands and IOM
> as a country), and major city, such as Manchester, Edinburgh, etc.
> 2 for London, 1 north, 1 for south. (Thames as a natural barrier).
> Any more localised groups can be quite easily covered by a
> county group. This would reduce it from 83? to about 30 or so?
Let's see. I'll do my best to interpret what I think Richard is suggesting:
Combine or split Net gain
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Channel Islands & IOM -> CI&IOM -1
London -> North London & South London +1
Reading & Windsor -> Berkshire -1
Exeter & Plymouth & Torbay -> Devonshire -1
Dover & Rochester -> Kent -1
Birmingham & Coventry -> West Midlands -1
Bradford & Leeds -> West Yorkshire -1
Boston & Lincoln -> Lincolnshire -1
========
-6
So if I'm understanding things correctly (maybe I'm not), this would bring
the number of UK groups down from 83 to 77?
Note that in counties such as Durham, Lothian, Clwyd, etc., where there is
only a single city represented (this is the case in 9 out of 10 of the
counties) there is actually only 1 group -- the counties don't themselves
have groups, and that's why the number wouldn't go down to 30 -- because
there aren't 50 groups for counties.
A side question -- am I misunderstanding what a county is? Are there other,
larger administrative divisions higher up than the 46 listed here?--
http://www.lugnet.com/loc/uk/en/
But anyway, back to the real issue -- I was hoping to see ideas on how to
solve the problem about people not finding the loc.uk group, rather than how
to reduce the number of groups. There could be 20 UK groups or 2,000 UK
groups and the problem of finding the main group would still exist.
--Todd
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| On Fri, 14 May 1999 21:02:14 GMT, Todd Lehman uttered the following profundities... (...) I've been busy preparing for a trip, so haven't devoted the necessary time to research completely. Upon my return, I will provide a list which I think might be (...) (25 years ago, 14-May-99, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) That's what it looks like Richard is suggesting... (...) *nod* See below. (...) counties you listed were "rationalised" (unitarised?) a couple of years back. For example, Humberside no longer exist... the southern part was (re-) joined with (...) (25 years ago, 27-May-99, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.admin.general)
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| On Thu, 13 May 1999 07:39:26 GMT, Todd Lehman uttered the following profundities... (...) Quite true. There was no malicious intent. But knee-jerk reactions, bad results. You did somewhere comment on how many posts. There was an attempt to do it all (...) (25 years ago, 13-May-99, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.admin.general)
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