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From: chuq@Apple.COM (Chuq Von Rospach)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: While we're talking about global changes in newsgroups...
Message-ID: <35668@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 15 Oct 89 18:57:32 GMT
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>Here you've lost me, Chuq.  What makes the top level different from
>any other level?  Why *not* use comp instead of comp.misc?

Partly technological -- you don't want to clutter the root of your top-level
domain with lots and lots of inodes. It'd be inefficient. I also think you
want to avoid putting messages at the root of a domain. you want to farm
them into the tree somewhere.

>>Anyone who thinks that the argument over {sci,rec}.fishies is about
>>group names doesn't understand the system.

>Right, and who does "understand the system"?

Well, I do, for one. After all these years, I better...

>The way you understand
>it and the way others understand differ, in general.  Who's to say
>which is "right"?

History says who is right. And experience is what helps people understand
what's likely to be reasonable. You can't expect to understand USENET unless
you know why it is the way it is and how it got that way.


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Chuq Von Rospach <+> Editor,OtherRealms <+> Member SFWA/ASFA
chuq@apple.com <+> CI$: 73317,635 <+> [This is myself speaking]

Anyone who thinks that the argument over {sci,rec}.fishies is about
group names doesn't understand the system.