Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!lsuc!eci386!clewis From: clewis@eci386.uucp (Chris Lewis) Newsgroups: news.groups Subject: Re: Call for discussion -- comp.binaries.usenet-ps-maps Message-ID: <1989Nov13.201728.2914@eci386.uucp> Date: 13 Nov 89 20:17:28 GMT References: <8911081800.AA06383@prune.bbn.com> Reply-To: clewis@eci386.UUCP (Chris Lewis) Organization: R. H. Lathwell Associates: Elegant Communications, Inc. Lines: 38 In article <8911081800.AA06383@prune.bbn.com> Rich Salz writes: >This note is to start discussion for the group "comp.binaries.usenet-ps-maps." >I'm sure some people are opposed to the "-ps-" part of the name. The >intent is to help ward off people from asking for HPGL or TIFF or other >formats. Yes, the mnemonic is not totally obvious, but we think it strikes >a reasonable compromise. We bandied about round here a suggestion along the lines of a new hierarchy devoted to network *administration* (not technology). Where things like connectivity, maps and administrative stuff could be carried. Eg: Brian's maps, Mel's comp.mail.maps, emergency hierarchies etc. Presently, "news." mostly fills the bill, except that "news." is really referring *only* to network news. For a *very* short time we thought of "net." (visions of nostalgic flamewars danced thru our heads), and thought eventually of "netadmin.", or "admin." or something like that. The idea being that this would be a generic network administration hierarchy with such subgroups as "news", and potentially "news.alt" (maybe), "news.biz", "mail", "internet" etc. The existing news. heirarchy could be moved lock-stock-and-barrel under a "admin.news" group. Naw too difficult - how could usenet newgroup guidelines apply? (unless we suspended the usenet newgroup guidelines ala alt) How about news.lists.{psmaps|newsmaps}? If we put it under news.lists, and Brian moderates, I don't think that there will be much complaint about not being able to get formats other than Postscript. Gene doesn't get much complaint about his stuff not being in TeX or troff does he? T'would be nice to have the mail maps under news.lists.mailmaps too, but never mind! -- He's a consultant: | Chris Lewis, Elegant Communications Inc. Lend him your watch | UUCP {uunet!attcan,utzoo}!lsuc!eci386!clewis and he'll tell you the time. | Moderator of the Ferret mailing list. Don Munroe, Cosmic Commander|