mwm@ea.UUCP (07/24/84)
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ea!mwm Jul 23 17:55:00 1984
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A radical reorganization is fine by me, but I still want to
see a 'root' distinction made between the two major classes
of newsgroups -- (1) technically-oriented ones;
and (2) others.
Julian Davies
(the guy who pays some of the bills here)
{uwo|deepthot}!julian
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"I'm agin' it." Here's why:
1) It provides an arbitrary "censorship" line - and one that probably won't
be right for most sites. If you are really worried about your phone costs,
you should first hand off any people you are feeding news to to someone
else, then selectively cut out the ones you don't want.
2) Deciding what is/isn't technical is *hard*. Obviously, you want to
include net.unix* as technical. What about net.astro-*, or any technical
but non-cs group? net.ham-radio (probably the most technical of group I've
seen)? net.audio? net.micro*? net.news.group?
I think the previously discussed idea of breaking things down by topic
would be reasonably: net.sci, net.cs, net.cs.unix* (or maybe just
net.unix*), etc. That would solve problem 2, and would allow those who
don't want to have to work at deciding what to cut out a much larger
selection of partitions, thus alleviating problem 1.
<mike