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From: jtc@van-bc.UUCP (J.T. Conklin)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: CALL FOR DISCUSSION: news.software.{transports,readers}
Message-ID: <73@van-bc.UUCP>
Date: 28 Nov 89 18:56:13 GMT
References: <68@van-bc.UUCP> <18904.25725545@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
Reply-To: jtc@van-bc.UUCP (J.T. Conklin)
Organization: Wimsey Associates
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In article <18904.25725545@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> sloane@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:
>Well, news.software.anu-news is a limited interest group, in that it only runs
>on VAX/VMS machines.  I think there are about 200-300 sites world wide using
>this package.  Leaving it in its own newsgroup lets sites that aren't
>interested avoid the traffic.  It currently has about 20-25 messages per week.
>It is also gatewayed to the ANU-NEWS@VM1.NODAK.EDU mailing list.  I would
>rather not have to read all the news.software.b postings to see the anu stuff.
>I suspect that the unix people would rather not hear about the anu problems.

Actually, the anu and nntp groups are what I was refering to in my
proposal (I didn't word it very well).  They certainly deserve their
own groups.

I was questioning whether or not they should be left alone or moved
under the proposed "news.software.transports.*" hierarchy.  Nntp would
fit nicely here, anu less so.

>Just out of curiosity, why do you think your scheme is better than the current
>one?  It seems perfectly rational to me to have one group per package, so
>people can find articles of interest easily.

In general, discussions about the news software can be divided between
readers and transports.

If traffic warrents a separate group for a particular software package,
I would rather it be organized in the appropriate sub-hierarchy.

Something like this:
news.software.readers.nn
news.software.readers.rn
news.software.readers.misc
news.software.transports
news.software.transports.nntp

Rather than:
news.software.b
news.software.c
news.software.gnews
news.software.gnus
news.software.nn
news.software.nntp
.
.
.

    --jtc

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J.T. Conklin
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