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From: welty@lewis.crd.ge.com (richard welty)
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Subject: Re: While we're talking about global changes in newsgroups...
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Date: 17 Oct 89 20:00:42 GMT
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In article <6532@ficc.uu.net>, Peter da Silva writes: 

about some easy namespace cleanups. 

*news.software.misc	I know C-news is B-news compatible, but there will
*			be others. Besides, anu news is B-compatible as well.
*			I think the important factor is the overall software
*			design, not what it interoperates with. C-news is
*			very little like B-news internally.

good idea.  i still don't understand why Bill Wisner's vote for
news.software failed; i voted yes then and i'd vote yes again.

*rec.models.misc		We have .rc, and a demand for .rocket. How about
*			making a rec.models.misc (or rec.models) to keep
*			this from turning into a hydra? This is probably
*			the most obvious and important of these changes.

i agree very much.  i'd even volunteer to run a vote for either
rec.models or rec.models.misc.

note that i agree that there isn't much difference between
foo.bar and foo.bar.misc as group names; the namespace is
already totally confused on this score anyway; we have
rec.autos, rec.autos.tech, and rec.autos.sport on the one
hand, and rec.sports.misc, rec.sports.basketball, and so
forth on the other.  i'd just soon see rec.models and
news.software created without the .misc, but i wouldn't
vote no if we wanted to go the other way.

anyway, i think i'll start discussion on rec.models in the
very near future.

richard
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