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From: richard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton)
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Subject: Re: Why not just eliminate all the hierarchies?
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Date: 19 Oct 89 17:26:57 GMT
Reply-To: richard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton)
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In article <6583@ficc.uu.net> peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:
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>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.

I dunno Peter. I agree with that this all much ado about nothing.

Did you notice that people are able to read and post to alt.sources.amiga
even though (*gasp* THE HORROR!) it doesn't even have a meaningful
hierarchy ?

I think a larger problem is the ``clumping'' of the hierarchies.


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