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From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: news.groups,news.admin
Subject: Re: Why not just eliminate all the hierarchies?
Summary: Because they still serve a purpose.
Message-ID: <6583@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 18 Oct 89 18:50:46 GMT
References: <34075@looking.on.ca> <6545@ficc.uu.net> <35283@looking.on.ca>
Reply-To: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
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In article <35283@looking.on.ca> brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton) writes:
> In article <6545@ficc.uu.net> peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:
> >However adding  the automatic .newsrc culling is not going to fly here. We
> >don't want users determining our feed.

> Who else *do* you want determining your feed?

The people responsible for the resources that enable us to receive it.

[ "clearly", he says, any such scheme would include a kill-list and a
  required list, ... ]

In our case, those lists pretty much define the feed. The gap between
them is small enough that micromanagement is meaningless.

Your scheme is fine for individuals and small businesses, and I'd love
to have such a setup for my home site, but its availability (which is,
pardon me, still hypothetical) should not be taken as grounds for
abandoning news hierarchies.
-- 
Peter da Silva, *NIX support guy @ Ferranti International Controls Corporation.
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