Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!milano!bigtex!pmafire!geoff From: geoff@pmafire.UUCP (Geoff Allen) Newsgroups: news.groups Subject: Re: To be or not to be anarchy (by Karen Valentino) Message-ID: <880@pmafire.UUCP> Date: 1 Dec 89 17:13:24 GMT References: <2903@viper.Lynx.MN.Org> <528@panix.UUCP> <36510@apple.Apple.COM> <1989Nov24.224754.5657@everexn.uucp> <7160@ficc.uu.net> Reply-To: geoff@pmafire.UUCP (Geoff Allen) Organization: WINCO Computer Engineering, INEL, Idaho Lines: 22 jeff daiell ( jeffd@ficc.uu.net ) writes: >Indeed, the only "problem" with the current system anyone's >been able to posit has been the occasional misnomer -- >sci.aquaria as the latest offense. This doesn't seem to >happen often, but, even if it's a problem grave enough >to warrant change, let it be a change that makes only >misnaming more difficult -- not a change that makes >other group creation harder, and not a change that dilutes >the individual user's input. I think that's all anyone's asking of newgroup reform. We want to keep the namespace consistent. I don't think anyone (except maybe Ron Heiby :-) ) wants to make it more difficult to create a new group -- just more difficult to abuse the namespace, whether intentionally or inadvertantly. -- Geoff Allen \ Driggs, Idaho -- cultural hub of the west! {uunet|bigtex}!pmafire!geoff \ ucdavis!egg-id!pmafire!geoff \ (Tom Harper in rec.skiing) Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com