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From: david@indetech.com (David Kuder)
Subject: Re: While we're talking about global changes in newsgroups...
Message-ID: <1989Oct18.191648.26973@indetech.com>
Reply-To: david@indetech.UUCP (David Kuder)
Organization: Independence Technologies, Inc. Fremont, CA
References: <6532@ficc.uu.net> <1989Oct15.020043.12669@rpi.edu>
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 89 19:16:48 GMT

In <6532@ficc.uu.net> peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:
Peter>news.software.misc      I know C-news is B-news compatible, but there
Peter>	will be others. Besides, anu news is B-compatible as well.  I
Peter>	think the important factor is the overall software design, not
Peter>	what it interoperates with. C-news is very little like B-news
Peter>	internally.

In article <1989Oct15.020043.12669@rpi.edu>
	tale@pawl.rpi.edu (David C Lawrence) writes:
>A proposal was brought up a few months ago to create news.software and
>rmgroup news.software.b.  Everytime I post a message to news.software.b I
>still think it is a good idea.  Not even a .misc group, just a vanilla
>news.software.   Are there any strong arguments against this?

Only the old ones about the momentum of the net will make
such a change impossible.  I don't believe them.  I think
the change to news.software from news.software.b is
desirable.  I think the attempt to shake the name hierarchy
is worthwhile.  I mean I lived through a bigger shake up
yesterday, I think the net can survive one little name
change.
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