Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: news.groups Subject: Re: Hierarchies Message-ID: <7068@ficc.uu.net> Date: 21 Nov 89 04:35:08 GMT References: <6951@ficc.uu.net> <11414@cbnews.ATT.COM> <4362@hplabsz.HPL.HP.COM> <25684CEF.26422@ateng.com> Reply-To: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 22 In article <25684CEF.26422@ateng.com> chip@ateng.com (Chip Salzenberg) writes: > 1. Crossposting. Rather like Unix hard links,... More like soft links, since you can link across hierarchies, distributions, administrative groups, etc... > 2. Aliasing. ... Rather like Unix soft links. ... And this is more like file system mounts. It's something the administrator does, users can't, and generally users don't care about it so long as they don't run out of disk space. > I wonder what further escapes from the hierarchy are needed. Merged groups, perhaps? Brad's keyword searching stuff? Who knows... how about the other hierarchies in News: threads and message chains? -- `-_-' Peter da Silva . 'U` -------------- +1 713 274 5180. "ERROR: trust not in UUCP routing tables" -- MAILER-DAEMON@mcsun.EU.net