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From: lee@sq.sq.com (Liam R. E. Quin)
Subject: Re: Why not rename comp.sources.* to comp.source.code.*
Message-ID: <1989Nov6.200704.25810@sq.sq.com>
Reply-To: lee@sq.com (Liam R. E. Quin)
Organization: Unixsys (UK) Ltd
References: <1989Nov2.063440.16036@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu> <2125@prune.bbn.com>
Date: Mon, 6 Nov 89 20:07:04 GMT

In article <2125@prune.bbn.com> rsalz@bbn.com (Rich Salz) writes:
>Jeff Medcalf suggests
>>While we're at it, what about
>>
>>comp.source.code.misc
>>comp.source.code.sun
>etc...
>
>The answer is that those groups are moderated, so when people post mistaken
>messages to those groups, only the moderator has to deal with it.

Except that it would make a lot more sense if all of the newsgroups
had consistent names.

At least it would then be possible to intuit the name of the comp.* groups
from the alt.source-code groups, and versa vice [:-)].
This is especially useful for people who get a limited subset of the
news (for cost of disk-space reasons).

On the other hand, that would force all of the archivers to change.

Lee
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