Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!indri!xanth!mcnc!decvax!zinn!mem From: mem@zinn.MV.COM (Mark E. Mallett) Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: Re: DISCUSSION - modification of charter for news.announce.newgroups Message-ID: <608@zinn.MV.COM> Date: 20 Aug 89 17:46:29 GMT References: <3960@ncar.ucar.edu> <1989Aug13.021012.216@utzoo.uucp> <3994@looking.on.ca> <1047@anise.acc.com> <4001@looking.on.ca> <1989Aug18.030110.3223@nc386.uucp> Reply-To: mem@zinn.MV.COM (Mark E. Mallett) Organization: Zinn Computer Co., Litchfield NH Lines: 33 In article <1989Aug18.030110.3223@nc386.uucp> allbery@nc386.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery) writes: >Which leads to my suggestion: a "meta-hierarchy". (Call it "meta" just for >the purposes of discussion.) This hierarchy would be considered to be a part >of *all* news hierarchies, whether world, alt, gnu, biz, etc. > ... >Comments, anyone? I'm anyone... Since the alternate hierarchies exist within their own policies, distribution methods, purposes, et. al, it makes sense to me to make announcements of changes within those hierarchies, within those hierarchies. Anyone participating in those hierarchies can get those notifications in the relevant way. It only remains for the mainstream readers to know about changes in the hierarchy system itself (i.e., creation and deletion of whole hierarchies, and perhaps contact information). This is already covered in the 'alternative newsgroups' and 'mailing list' monthlies, which also list out all the individual gouprs in the other hierarchies. Anyone interested in alternate hierarchies can find out about them via the alternative newsgroups lists and can arrange to participate in those lists, whereupon they can participate in the business of those groups. It seems to me that this is the way it ought to work, and that a meta-group would be irrelevant. -mm- -- Mark E. Mallett Zinn Computer Co/ PO Box 4188/ Manchester NH/ 03103 Bus. Phone: 603 645 5069 Home: 603 424 8129 BIX: mmallett uucp: mem@zinn.MV.COM ( ...{decvax|elrond|harvard}!zinn!mem ) Northern MA and Southern NH consultants: Ask (in mail!) about MV.COM