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Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: news.software.c
Summary: I third the change
Message-ID: <473@laas.laas.fr>
Date: 30 Oct 89 16:55:16 GMT
References: <8067@microsoft.UUCP> <1989Oct17.000121.28750@utzoo.uucp> <89Oct17.000635edt.3270@neat.cs.toronto.edu> <1989Oct17.154621.2928@brutus.cs.uiuc.edu>
Reply-To: ralph@laas.laas.fr	(Ralph P. Sobek)
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In article <1989Oct17.154621.2928@brutus.cs.uiuc.edu> coolidge@cs.uiuc.edu writes:
|  moraes@cs.toronto.edu (Mark Moraes) writes:
|  >Since the news transport systems need to interoperate with each other
|  >and with newsreaders, it's probably a good thing to have just one
|  >group. Or perhaps news.software.newsreaders and news.software.transport.
|  
|  I'd prefer to see either just a news.software group or the above
|  .newsreaders, .transport, and maybe .protocols (.transport being
|  the software and .protocols being the underlying protocol spec).

I third the choice of rearranging these newsgroups!

|  However, I really don't think the volume is much of a burden right now.
|  Perhaps of the traffic zooms way up, but right now news.software.b
|  has a pretty easy-to-handle volume.

I do not think that the problem is one of volume but of varied
subjects all being discussed under news.software.b!  The newsreader
discussions should be separated out from the software discussions.  If
there's not enough justification of adding news.software.c alone, then
why not rename the newsgroup to news.software?  More detailled topics
could continue as in news.software.nntp.

Yes, let's separate the newsreaders from the transport software.

That was my 2 c^H/ (imagine a cents sign here) worth.



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