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From: barry@pico.math.ucla.edu (Barry Merriman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Trn and 'subject areas' (was Re: Breaking the group up.)
Keywords: split news group
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Date: 22 Mar 91 02:30:43 GMT
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In article <259@ar-rimal.cs.utexas.edu> garnett@cs.utexas.edu (John William Garnett) writes:
>
>The effects of a split newsgroup could be more closely approximated
>if each poster to comp.sys.next would always include a "subject area"
>indication as the first keyword (in the Keywords: field).  This would
>allow the user to search on a given subject area (thus skipping those
>undesired subject areas).  

Hey---that sounds like a good idea to me. Actually, it is better
than splitting the group. particularly if one uses trn.
Can trn be trained to filter things according to the keywords?

So, lets decide on a naming convention. Since we are not 
going to all the trouble of splitting the group, we can 
try out a very large set of names, and let the unsuccesful
ones die out.

My votes for subject areas are:

System Administration
Applications
Hardware
Programming
Miscellaneous

These could spawn children, like Programming.Music,
or Miscellaneous.Flames, etc.

or, we could try a binary version of this classification,
for the mathematically inclined;

Hardware
  Primary
  Peripheral   

Software
  Programming
  User

etc.

--
Barry Merriman
UCLA Dept. of Math
UCLA Inst. for Fusion and Plasma Research
barry@math.ucla.edu (Internet)