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From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: New newsgroup hierarchy
Message-ID: <1989Nov20.162426.6252@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1618.25614348@mccall.uucp> <1989Nov16.172110.21492@utzoo.uucp> <91457@pyramid.pyramid.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 89 16:24:26 GMT

In article <91457@pyramid.pyramid.com> csg@pyramid.pyramid.com (Carl S. Gutekunst) writes:
>...Think of it as administrative friendliness.

I think of it as administrative hostility, actually.  The last thing I want
is a dozen more pointless top-level groups cluttering up my sys file.

>What next? Fold biz.all and clari.all into the comp, sci, etc. hierarchy?

They've got good reasons for being separate.  vmsnet doesn't.
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A bit of tolerance is worth a  |     Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
megabyte of flaming.           | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu