Xref: utzoo news.admin:7647 news.groups:14710 comp.mail.uucp:3763 comp.os.vms:19715 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!shadooby!mailrus!iuvax!purdue!bu-cs!xylogics!world!bzs From: bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein) Newsgroups: news.admin,news.groups,comp.mail.uucp,comp.os.vms Subject: Re: New newsgroup hierarchy Message-ID: <1989Nov17.174318.21963@world.std.com> Date: 17 Nov 89 17:43:18 GMT References: <1618.25614348@mccall.uucp> Organization: The World @ Software Tool & Die Lines: 36 From: wayne@dsndata.uucp (Wayne Schlitt) >why not create/use >comp.sources.vms for vmsnet.sources >comp.sources.games.vms for vmsnet.sources.games >comp.mail.vms for vmsnet.mail >comp.mail.pmdf for vmsnet.mail.pmdf >comp.sources.d for vmsnet.sources.d. (comp.source.d ... >anyway, it's not that i am opposed to this new hierarchy, or that i >think that people shouldnt carry it, it's just that this seems to run >counter to the way usenet has been run in the past. most of the other >non-mainstream hierarchies are there because the _rules_ for carrying >them are different or because they are regional groups. Why not be opposed to the new hierarchy? You make a very valid point. My gut feeling is that this is another one of those "news group as status symbol" proposals. Actually, in this case, it's an entire news hierarchy, big status symbol. Obviously no one can just stop them but I don't really see the rationale for encouraging this project. Should we start a unix.* hierarchy? A msdos.*? os2.*? Ad nauseum? What exactly does having an entire hierarchy add to this project (other than perhaps some feeling of control at the cost of cooperation)? Where are people supposed to post in re the groups that already exist? Cross-post everything? I think this is grandstanding and just confuses things. -- -Barry Shein Software Tool & Die, Purveyors to the Trade | bzs@world.std.com 1330 Beacon St, Brookline, MA 02146, (617) 739-0202 | {xylogics,uunet}world!bzs