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From: szabo@crg5.UUCP (Nick Szabo)
Newsgroups: news.groups,news.admin,news.software.b
Subject: Re: Groups with postings and subgroups (was: Re: sci.geo or ... )
Message-ID: <20647@crg5.UUCP>
Date: 7 Dec 90 02:39:41 GMT
References: <10363@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu> <1990Nov22.151938.17236@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> <659645056.29152@mindcraft.com> <1990Nov27.200339.29660@servalan.uucp>
Reply-To: szabo@crg5.UUCP (Nick Szabo)
Organization: Sequent Computer Systems, Inc
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In article <1990Nov27.200339.29660@servalan.uucp> ben@servalan.uucp (Ben Mesander) writes:
>In article <659645056.29152@mindcraft.com> karish@mindcraft.com (Chuck Karish) writes:
>>
>>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.
>

Make sure the news heirarchy can be punched out on cards too. :-)  
Seriously, at some point we have to balance current readership and 
functionality against additional readership. I don't functionality 
to suffer.



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Nick Szabo			szabo@sequent.com
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