spaf@gatech.UUCP (Gene Spafford) (08/21/85)
After the last round of newsgroup deletions and the like, I received a lot of mail expressing concerns and suggestions for further reorganization of newsgroups. A few of those suggestions made immediate sense, and others appear worth further comment. I am posting this to net.announce for public comment because I do not intend to post a copy of this to each affected group, nor do I think people will appreciate vast numbers of cross-posted followups should any of these generate heated argument. If you feel the urge to post a followup article, please do so to net.news.group, the group where discussion about creation and deletion of newsgroups normally takes place. The first proposal currently before the net is to rename some groups and thus provide a more meaningful and consistent name scheme. Change 1: rename "net.notes" to "net.news.notes" Change 2: rename "mod.map.uucp" to "mod.map" Change 3: rename "net.chess" to "net.games.chess" I am aware of no argument that could be made against any of these changes, and many arguments for the changes. Therefore, if anyone has what they consider to be a good reason NOT to make any (or all) of these changes, please send me MAIL to that effect. Otherwise, I will go ahead and change the groups around and post an article explaining to people how to change their alias files. Secondly, I have gotten the follow suggestions on which I would appreciate feedback (other suggestions are also welcome): Suggestion 1: move "net.bio" to "net.sci.bio" Suggestion 2: move "net.astro" to "net.sci.astro" Suggestion 3: move "net.physics" to "net.sci.physics" Suggestion 4: move "net.space" to "net.sci.space" Suggestion 5: combine "net.cse" and "net.college" into a (new) "net.edu" Suggestion 6: drop "net.columbia" in favor of "net.space" (see #4) Suggestion 7: move "net.abortion" to "net.flame.abortion" Suggestion 8: move "net.origins" to "net.flame.origins"