Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!rutgers!ucsd!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: news.groups Subject: A radical new departure for newsgroups Message-ID: <7002@ficc.uu.net> Date: 16 Nov 89 16:12:05 GMT Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 41 Currently the following hierarchies exist, with controlling bodies: news Usenet guidelines comp Usenet guidelines soc Usenet guidelines sci Usenet guidelines rec Usenet guidelines talk Usenet guidelines misc Usenet guidelines alt Nobody gnu The Free Software Foundation clari Brad Templeton inet Internet (not really a hierarchy) bionet Eliot Lear biz Consensus pubnet Bill Wisner unix-pc Various u3b Len Rose The usenet hierarchies are getting too unruly. They're too big. How about farming them out, delegating naming and group creation authority to various people or other groups. For example, most of the comp.sys.* groups could be safely delegated to a user group or vendor. It should be pretty safe to allocate a bunch of people to create new groups in talk.religion.* and talk.politics.*, and so on. CMU could administer comp.soft-sys.andrew. It would probably be a good idea to consolidate some of the second-level groups (comp.emacs, etcetera) into second-level hierarchies first. Also, the comp.sources.* and comp.binaries.* shoudl be moved to the appropriate comp.sys.* hierarchy. Once a group is under delegated control, you should go to the controlling body to get a group created, destroyed, moderated, unmoderated, and so on. If they prove refractory, then you can appeal to another hierarchy or go by the guidelines. -- `-_-' Peter da Silva . 'U` -------------- +1 713 274 5180. "vi is bad because it didn't work after I put jelly in my keyboard." -- Jeffrey W Percival (jwp@larry.sal.wisc.edu)