Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!alembic!csu
From: csu@alembic.acs.com (Dave Mack)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: A radical new departure for newsgroups
Message-ID: <1989Nov19.063639.2490@alembic.acs.com>
Date: 19 Nov 89 06:36:39 GMT
References: <7002@ficc.uu.net>
Reply-To: csu@alembic.acs.com (Dave Mack)
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This is probably another forgery but, just in case:

In article <7002@ficc.uu.net> peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:
>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. 

OK, this sounds like a good idea. I'll take news, comp and sci.
Whoever wants the rest can have 'em.

As the Overlord of News, Comp, and Sci, my first edict is:

Sci.Aquaria shall henceforth be known as Sci.Fish-Behind-Glass.

And my second edict is:

Comp.Unix.Xenix shall henceforth be known as Comp.Unix.Imitation.Bad.

And my third edict is:

News.Admin, News.Groups, and News.Announce.Important shall be collapsed
into a single newsgroup named News.Dave. Obviously, it will be moderated.

The newgroup and rmgroup messages implementing these edicts shall be
forthcoming in the next few hours. I will think up more improvements in
the Sacred Namespace after I've had my nap.

Your Benevolent Overlord for News, Comp, and Sci,
Dave Mack