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From: jtc@tessera.uucp (J.T. Conklin)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Namespace Reorganization (was Re: A question)
Keywords: usenet namespace renaming
Message-ID: <1989Oct14.170900.9225@tessera.uucp>
Date: 14 Oct 89 17:09:00 GMT
References: <73@elrond.la.locus.com>
Reply-To: jtc@tessera.UUCP (J.T. Conklin)
Organization: Tesseract Communications, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
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In article <73@elrond.la.locus.com> news@elrond.la.locus.com.UUCP (George Bray) writes:
>The last "great renaming" was a real struggle (I only watched from the
>sidelines, but I still got rather blood-spattered).  It would be useful
>to attempt again, but with so many machines, users, and sysadmins around,
>I'm not sure it's really possible.  SIGH.

I agree that the "great renaming" was a big hassle, but I think it left
a much better usenet in its place.

I think that if there was an annual namespace reorganization, things can
be set up to be much smoother.  For example, a set of scripts could be
developed that would update active, sys, and .newsrc files (or whatever
they are called on your flavour of news) from a "change list".

Perhaps a test renaming could be set up (maybe news.* -> netnews.*) to
test the real-world feasibility of such a plan.

    --jtc

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J.T. Conklin
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