Path: utzoo!attcan!sobmips!uunet!ateng!chip From: chip@ateng.com (Chip Salzenberg) Newsgroups: news.groups Subject: Re: Give it up, folks Message-ID: <2562D4BA.16645@ateng.com> Date: 16 Nov 89 15:39:36 GMT References: <36339@apple.Apple.COM> <10119@stag.math.lsa.umich.edu> <36343@apple.Apple.COM> <1989Nov11.002535.21243@world.std.com> <255F14A9.16035@ateng.com> <1989Nov15.160912.8148@world.std.com> Organization: A T Engineering, Tampa, FL Lines: 29 According to bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein): >From: chip@ateng.com (Chip Salzenberg) >>Apparently Barry forgets all the answers about cluttered name spaces making >>the discovery of The Appropriate Group For An Article even more difficult. > >Apparently Chip hasn't looked at his active file or .newsrc in a few >years, I have 976 groups listed. I fear the horse has long since left >the barn. I disagree; but then, that's what polite discourse is all about. >Do you buy the smallest theasurus or dictionary you can find on the >assumption that it will be easier to find words in it? Oh, please. That's probably the least appropriate analogy I could expect. My personal dictionary does not provide categories for discussion. >Just saying nice truisms like "umm, if there were too many then, er, >it would be CONFUSING" doesn't prove the point, it's just preaching to >a choir. If there were too many groups created by a variety of people, each of whom has a unique idea of how the namespace should be used, and without any restraint from popular opinion, the result would be a _very_ confusing mess. As opposed to the moderately confusing mess we have now. -- You may redistribute this article only to those who may freely do likewise. Chip Salzenberg at A T Engineering; or "Did I ever tell you the Jim Gladding story about the binoculars?"