Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!looking!brad From: brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton) Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: Re: DISCUSSION - modification of charter for news.announce.newgroups Message-ID: <3994@looking.on.ca> Date: 13 Aug 89 06:42:26 GMT References: <3960@ncar.ucar.edu> <1989Aug13.021012.216@utzoo.uucp> Reply-To: brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton) Organization: Looking Glass Software Ltd. Lines: 15 Class: discussion In article <1989Aug13.021012.216@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes: >Or such hierarchies should be merged into the main ones. It really is >a pain that every little topic thinks it deserves a hierarchy of its own. I think the reason for this, particularly in the case of ALT, is a desire to avoid the bureaucracy of the current group creation procedure. No, that's not the only reason, but it's a major one. So I think the other hierarchies will continue to exist and have a reason for existing in that way. Actually, there's very little need for hierarchies. My own news subscription mechanism for sites involves giving the site a .newsrc instead of a sys file line, so control can be done at the individual newsgroup level. The only use left for hierarchies is handling control messages. -- Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software Ltd. -- Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473