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From: allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: Call for discussion -- comp.binaries.usenet-ps-maps
Message-ID: <1989Nov18.184934.3370@NCoast.ORG>
Date: 18 Nov 89 18:49:34 GMT
Article-I.D.: NCoast.1989Nov18.184934.3370
References: <1989Nov17.030335.1655@indetech.com>
Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery)
Followup-To: news.groups
Organization: North Coast Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, OH
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As quoted from <1989Nov17.030335.1655@indetech.com> by david@indetech.com (David Kuder):
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| Whatever name is chosen for a new newsgroup it should be nowhere near
| comp.mail or comp.mail.maps.  Comp.mail.maps is already name space
| abuse, there is no need to further it.  Comp.lang.postscript.maps
| is a little strange rather far cognitively from the stuff that is
| similar: news.lists.
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I don't follow your statement that comp.mail.maps is name-space abuse:  it is
a newsgroup for the routing maps that make computer email possible (or at
least much easier).

As for news.lists, may I remind all those people who are posting without
having looked at the map announcement that is regularly posted to news.lists
and news.admin states that the people reading news.lists do not *want* the
maps posted there.

There are a number of *possible* solutions:

* Ignore those who don't want the maps posted in news.lists.  Can you say
  "flame war"?  This would ultimately lead to:

* Drop the PS maps, or make them available via FTP.  This one is a distinct
  possibility.

* Create a new newsgroup, following the proper rules.  (A sub-case would be
  "create a new newsgroup without following the rules", which sub-case is
  probably my biggest early mistake as a moderator....)  That is the solution
  currently being followed.

* Use another existing or new newsgroup.  Existing newsgroups are pretty well
  out for the same reason as news.lists.  However, may I suggest that this
  idea might fold in well with (or alongside) the current comp.graphics.images
  proposal?

++Brandon
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