Xref: utzoo news.groups:25916 news.admin:11249 news.software.b:6285 Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!att!pacbell.com!ucsd!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!van-bc!eslvcr!ted From: ted@eslvcr.wimsey.bc.ca (Ted Powell) Newsgroups: news.groups,news.admin,news.software.b Subject: Re: Groups with postings and subgroups Summary: Existing examples within the sci. hierarchy Message-ID: <1990Nov28.230819.11642@eslvcr.wimsey.bc.ca> Date: 28 Nov 90 23:08:19 GMT References: <659645056.29152@mindcraft.com> <1990Nov27.200339.29660@servalan.uucp> Organization: Entropy Limited, Vancouver Canada Lines: 43 In article peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes: >In article <1990Nov27.200339.29660@servalan.uucp> ben@servalan.uucp (Ben Mesander) writes: >> Some of us don't have source to UUCP or News software, and we have >> binaries, not scripts. [we're not as flexible] > >But the problem at hand (groups containing both articles and subgroups) >can't possibly be a problem with these older systems or they'd be well >and truly broken by now. Ben's comment was indeed puzzling, for the reason you give. The first example that comes to mind, of course, is rec.humor and rec.humor.funny -- but there are in fact several right within the sci. hierarchy. The lines below are excerpted from my active file. The numbers are small due to a recent crash, but they show that there is non-trivial traffic in the "parent" group in each case. sci.bio 0000000149 00086 y sci.bio.technology 0000000009 00010 y sci.lang 0000000276 00228 y sci.lang.japan 0000000174 00097 y sci.math 0000000451 00277 y sci.math.num-analysis 0000000045 00033 y sci.math.stat 0000000036 00024 y sci.math.symbolic 0000000045 00030 y sci.med 0000000319 00092 y sci.med.aids 0000000028 00009 m sci.med.physics 0000000009 00006 y sci.physics 0000000394 00302 y sci.physics.fusion 0000000082 00058 y sci.psychology 0000000202 00147 y sci.psychology.digest 0000000006 00002 y sci.space 0000000518 00399 y sci.space.shuttle 0000000143 00096 y -- ted@eslvcr.wimsey.bc.ca ...!ubc-cs!van-bc!eslvcr!ted (Ted Powell)