Xref: utzoo alt.sources.d:217 alt.config:1242 Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!rpi!tale From: tale@pawl.rpi.edu (David C Lawrence) Newsgroups: alt.sources.d,alt.config Subject: Re: Results of alt.sources renaming poll Message-ID: <1989Nov1.155911.21118@rpi.edu> Date: 1 Nov 89 15:59:11 GMT References: <1989Nov1.044114.1532@rpi.edu> Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY Lines: 35 In kim@uts.amdahl.com (Kim DeVaughn): Kim> Please bear in mind that there also exist *this* group (alt.sources.d), Kim> and alt.sources.amiga. AcK! A rub I'd not considered at this point. The intent through all of this was to leave everything else alone, just rename alt.sources. Kim> If you want to create a new group that doesn't live under alt.sources, Kim> well and good. Or if you want a new sub.group under alt.sources, that's Kim> fine too. It really isn't a matter of _where_, subgroup or not, but a matter of getting a clearer name. I'm beginning to wonder about any of the names anyway because I can envision the same number of non-source postings but all saying, "Where I can get the source code for ...?" The only thing that still has me leaning toward the renaming is personal testimony from Brandon, as a moderator, and from three other people, as users, stating that a different name would certainly cut down on some of them. Kim> If by chance rmgroup'ing alt.sources would leave the subgroups Kim> intact, then I apologize for this small waste of net.bandwidth. That is a bit of a problem. A careful admin could pull it off without any problem as long as he knew what was going on. C News as shipped will not remove the directory. I don't know about B News as shipped, but it was configured here to take out the directory while performing an rmgroup. With either, though, the directory would go away with rm -rf, which means directories for d/ and amiga/ would go too. The most major problem in all of this is many sites either don't have a news admin or have one that doesn't know/doesn't care. Dave -- (setq mail '("tale@pawl.rpi.edu" "tale@ai.mit.edu" "tale@rpitsmts.bitnet"))