Xref: utzoo news.admin:7642 news.groups:14676 comp.mail.uucp:3755 comp.os.vms:19687 Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!watmath!looking!brad From: brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton) Newsgroups: news.admin,news.groups,comp.mail.uucp,comp.os.vms Subject: Re: New newsgroup hierarchy Message-ID: <49454@looking.on.ca> Date: 18 Nov 89 05:31:22 GMT References: <1618.25614348@mccall.uucp> Reply-To: brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton) Organization: Looking Glass Software Ltd. Lines: 11 Class: rebuttal In article wayne@dsndata.uucp (Wayne Schlitt) writes: >if every operating system/computer started its own hierarchy, this >would lead to very fragmented net. each of those separate nets would >be much smaller... if ultrix, msdos, sun etc all broke off separate >nets, what would this do the usenet as a whole? What is so bad about this? The net is too big to manage as it is. Why distribute stuff where it's not wanted? Why not have smaller subnets? I'm all for it. -- Brad Templeton, ClariNet Communications Corp. -- Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473