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From: allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: A radical new departure for newsgroups
Message-ID: <1989Nov22.003403.17026@NCoast.ORG>
Date: 22 Nov 89 00:34:03 GMT
References: <7053@ficc.uu.net>
Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery)
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As quoted from <7053@ficc.uu.net> by peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva):
+---------------
| In article <1989Nov19.063639.2490@alembic.acs.com> csu@alembic.acs.com (Dave Mack) writes:
| > OK, this sounds like a good idea. I'll take news, comp and sci.
| > Whoever wants the rest can have 'em.
| 
| If you'd bothered to read the rest of the proposal, I was talking about
| things like comp.os.vms, comp.org.usenix, comp.sys.amiga, and so on. Where an
| obvious and appropriate controlling body can be found.
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I have to agree with Peter.  His proposal is just a generalization of two
existing mechanisms:  moderation, and independent top-level hierarchies.
After all, control of a (single) newsgroup is a necessary (but not sufficient)
part of moderation.  Generalization being better than specialization in most
cases, I'd say go for it.

++Brandon
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