On Fri, 16 May 1997, Gary Kleppe wrote:

If you remember, this was sort of tried in March. There were, I think,
five different lists filling in for the FFML while it was down. I was on
three of them.

The only way this is going to work, methinks, is if it is based on
content. Otherwise you'll either get people posting to *all* the lists,
or else many posts won't reach the people who would be interested in
them. Therefore, if you really want to do this, allow me to make a
counter-proposal. We could have five seperate lists as follows:

<Snips list descriptions.>

  Wasn't this how usenet was started? ;-)

  Seriously though, unless you moderate the lists, spam will continue.
Crossposting should also be banned, or the entire split would be
pointless.