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From: ben@servalan.uucp (Ben Mesander)
Newsgroups: news.groups,news.admin,news.software.b
Subject: Re: Groups with postings and subgroups (was: Re: sci.geo or ... )
Message-ID: <1990Nov27.200339.29660@servalan.uucp>
Date: 27 Nov 90 20:03:39 GMT
References: <10363@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu> <1990Nov22.151938.17236@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> <659645056.29152@mindcraft.com>
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In article <659645056.29152@mindcraft.com> karish@mindcraft.com (Chuck Karish) writes:
>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.

ALL THE WORLD IS NOT UNIX!   ALL THE WORLD IS NOT UNIX!

:-)

Some of us don't have source to UUCP or News software, and we have
binaries, not scripts. *I* personally don't have this problem, but
much of my job involves these hideous old computers that are *not*
UNIX machines, are *not* flexible, and do *not* have source available,
and do not support C. Just a little consideration for those of us 
running on old backwards systems, please. It is a problem for some.

>
>	Chuck Karish		karish@mindcraft.com
>	Mindcraft, Inc.		(415) 323-9000