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From: karish@mindcraft.com (Chuck Karish)
Newsgroups: news.groups,news.admin,news.software.b
Subject: Groups with postings and subgroups (was: Re: sci.geo or ... )
Summary: sci.geo
Message-ID: <659645056.29152@mindcraft.com>
Date: 26 Nov 90 18:44:15 GMT
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In article <1990Nov22.151938.17236@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG
(Kent Paul Dolan) writes:

>You don't want to have postings going to sci.geo [since sci.geo.fluids
>already exists], it breaks things like simple shell scripts to have a
>group contain both postings and subgroups. Many groups, including the
>one (comp.sys.amiga) for which I have taken charge of the
>reorganization, are having to go back and undo that mistake by
>establishing a .misc group; better by far to do it right in the first
>place.

Aren't there enough shell programmers reading this who know how and
where to type 'test -d' that we can design the news hierarchy for ease
of use rather than around a requirement that it be maintainable with
completely trivial scripts?

If I'm overlooking an intractable problem, please point it out to me.
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	Chuck Karish		karish@mindcraft.com
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