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From: gary@proa.sv.dg.com (Gary Bridgewater)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: news.software.cnews, anyone?
Message-ID: <1991Jan1.073408.20190@proa.sv.dg.com>
Date: 1 Jan 91 07:34:08 GMT
References: <3087@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> <29992@sequoia.execu.com> <1990Dec31.232653.1671@zoo.toronto.edu>
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In article <1990Dec31.232653.1671@zoo.toronto.edu> geoff@zoo.toronto.edu (Geoffrey Collyer) writes:
>Dewey Henize:
>>The name was a major factor, I believe, and with the
>>use of .cnews instead of .c, there should be little objection.
>
>...  If this is actually going to go to a
>vote, I request that the name proposed be "news.software.c-news".
>(Better yet would be something generic like "news.software.transport",
>but I think we've been over that ground before.)

For the record, I still think the C News and B News users have a need to
be in touch with each other.  Certainly B News has been enriched by the
C News innovations some of which have been adopted, piecemeal, by otherwise
solid B News sites.  There have also been occasions when the behavior (or
misbehavior) of one has had an effect on the other and in that case both
kinds of admins need to be aware.
If the name continues to be the problem (as it does elsewhere to a mystifying
degree) then news.software.transport should be an acceptable alternative.  We
may even persuade news.software.nntp to merge.
We are all in the business of shoveling ever larger amounts of this stuff
through our systems.  I don't see how fragmenting the group that manages
that on the basis of what software they are running will make anything better.
At best, some number of admins might be able to avoid reading a few messages
that their KILL file misses.  Is it really worth it?
-- 
Gary Bridgewater, Data General Corporation, Sunnyvale California
gary@sv.dg.com or {amdahl,aeras,amdcad}!dgcad!gary
C++ - it's the right thing to do.