Xref: utzoo news.admin:7767 news.groups:14980 comp.os.vms:19929 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!usc!snorkelwacker!bloom-beacon!bu-cs!ckd From: ckd@bu-pub.bu.edu (Christopher Davis) Newsgroups: news.admin,news.groups,comp.os.vms Subject: Re: New newsgroup hierarchy Message-ID: <43291@bu-cs.BU.EDU> Date: 24 Nov 89 01:14:58 GMT References: <1618.25614348@mccall.uucp> <1989Nov16.172110.21492@utzoo.uucp> <1989Nov20.005435.14063@wolves.uucp> <1989Nov23.185950.3723@utzoo.uucp> Sender: daemon@bu-cs.BU.EDU Reply-To: ckd@bu-pub.bu.edu (Christopher Davis) Organization: Boston University School of Management Lines: 28 In-reply-to: henry@utzoo.uucp's message of 23 Nov 89 18:59:50 GMT Greg> In article <1989Nov20.005435.14063@wolves.uucp> ggw@wolves.UUCP Greg> (Gregory G. Woodbury) writes: Henry> On 23 Nov 89 18:59:50 GMT, henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) said: Greg> To me it seems that the creation of a new top-level name is an ideal Greg> way to handle the potential traffic for lots of new sites that may Greg> come on the heels of this new set of software. Henry> We didn't do it for MSDOS or the Amiga or any of the other operating Henry> systems, and this somehow hasn't caused any major problems, even though Henry> the groups concerned with those systems are among the busiest on Usenet. Henry> Why on Earth should we do it for VMS? The difference I see is that a lot of VMS sites may be running news--very few Macs or DOSboxes or Amigas are (at least in proportion to the number of them out there). It makes sense to let them have a completely separate hierarchy, for the ones that are just starting with netnews software and don't want--or can't take--the whole USENET. (And for those of us with micros who *do* want feeds--it's far easier for me simply not to take vmsnet from any of my feeds than to cut comp.os.vms.all out but take comp.most.of.the.rest.) [Just think--we might sucker them in with this VMSNET thing, then they'll want news., comp., and sci., then we can sneak misc. and rec. under the door, then soc. and talk., and pretty soon we've got 'em hooked on alt. :-] -- Christopher Davis, BU SMG '90 "Technology is dominated by those who manage what they do not understand."