Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!ukc!stl!dww
From: dww@stl.stc.co.uk (David Wright)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: CALL FOR DISCUSSION: news.software.{transports,readers}
Summary: No, let's have news.software.c, -.nn, -.rn, -.misc instead
Message-ID: <2459@stl.stc.co.uk>
Date: 3 Dec 89 13:59:09 GMT
References: <68@van-bc.UUCP>
Sender: news@stl.stc.co.uk
Reply-To: "David Wright" <dww@stl.stc.co.uk>
Organization: STC Technology Limited, London Road, Harlow, Essex, UK
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In article <68@van-bc.UUCP> jtc@wimsey.bc.ca writes:
#	Merge current news.software.* groups into the two new
#	groups: news.software.transports and news.software.readers.
and goes on to list the groups that would be combined.

Bad idea.   

I take the point someone made that news admins should know about all the
news software in use on the net. but most of us have limited time, and have
to prioritise.   What I'd like to see is MORE news.software groups, in
particular news.software.c, news.software.nn (as is already being
discussed), news.software.rn, and also news.software.misc for anything that
does not fit into n.s.b, .c, .nn, .nntp, .anu-news, .notes etc.

Locally we use B news and rn.   In future I expect we'll use C news and xrn.
We may use nn (if someone here wants it enough to install it), but will
never use notes and anu-news (we did try the last for a while).   As the
news admin here, I ought ideally to know about all of these, but in practice
I want to know about problems/enhancements with B news and rn straight away,
C news etc. for future reference, and notes etc only if I have spare time.

With a set of news groups I can set my .newsrc in the above priority order,
and keep very up to date on the software we use here, while checking up on
the rest when I have time, so I know about what's being used elsewhere.

Regards,    David Wright       STL, London Road, Harlow, Essex  CM17 9NA, UK
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