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From: brnstnd@stealth.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein)
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Subject: Re: Give it up, folks
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Date: 16 Nov 89 22:21:15 GMT
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In article <1989Nov15.160912.8148@world.std.com> bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein) writes:
> The Library of Congress probably has
> hundreds of thousands of subject classifications and I haven't heard
> anyone calling the nation's library systems useless.

Because most books are put into the right sections. In other words, the
official subject divisions are easy to understand and widely respected.
USENET groups don't work that way.

---Dan