Gives you a mandate to do what? People don't take straw polls seriously
enough for them to count. If the status of the linux groups is to be
changed, it must done the same way other changes (splitting) are. And
aren't you being presumptous about giving yourself the right to apply
rules or not!

This whole damn business about trying to control the linux groups is just
plain silly. Probably every c.o.l.* reader feels that the groups are over-
crowded but most people find personal solutions (a good newsreader comes
to mind) instead of trying to impose a solution on everybody.

Nobody has to read everything in c.o.l.*. Choose subjects you want to follow
and let others make their choices.

: Note that discussion of this probably belongs in news.groups;
: comp.os.linux.misc is crowded enough already.

No, it is not too crowded for this unless you want to pull a fast one.