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From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.groups,comp.mail.uucp,comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: New newsgroup hierarchy
Message-ID: <1640@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Date: 17 Nov 89 19:11:51 GMT
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In article <91457@pyramid.pyramid.com> csg@pyramid.pyramid.com (Carl S. Gutekunst) writes:

| No! This is a different distribution -- therefore it definitely should have
| its own top-level name. The whole inet thing -- running a completely separate
| distribution within the traditional namespace -- has adaquately demonstrated
| that this is the wrong way to go. 

  I'm not sure what you're saying here, but usenet has a separate field
for distribution, separate from the name of the group. If UNIX (run by
most of the sites on the net) and MS-DOS (important either personally or
financially at most sites on the net) don't get their own distribution,
why should vms?

  There are lots of distributions now, such as alt, which are
organizational rather than geographic. Since you're a reasonable person
I assume your desire for your own namespace comes from a bad source of
technical information rather than an assumption that vms is more
important than the other operating systems on the net.
-- 
bill davidsen	(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
"The world is filled with fools. They blindly follow their so-called
'reason' in the face of the church and common sense. Any fool can see
that the world is flat!" - anon