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From: alex@telecdn.uucp (Alex Laney)
Newsgroups: comp.cog-eng,comp.groupware,comp.multimedia,comp.realtime,comp.specifications,comp.object,news.groups
Subject: Proposal for radical re-organization of these news groups.
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Date: 11 Apr 91 17:06:34 GMT
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This is of course,  way out in left field...

In the process of pruning my 'comp' tree, I noticed that there are a lot of
'second-tier' newsgroups, that are
related as computer engineering-type newsgroups.

I would like to put forth the proposal to rename the following newsgroups to
reflect this:

comp.cog-eng --> comp.software-eng.cognitive OR comp.software-eng.user-interface
comp.groupware --> comp.software-eng.groupware
comp.multimedia --> comp.software-eng.multimedia
comp.object -->  comp.software-eng.object
comp.realtime --> comp.software-eng.realtime
comp.software-eng --> comp.software-eng.misc
comp.specifications --> comp.software-eng.specifications

Now maybe comp.software-eng could be shortened to comp.soft-eng, like comp.soft-sys.andrew,
but you get my drift.

The current names are slightly vague but the discussions are predominately software engineering in
nature.

You see a lot of cross-posting among these groups, so to me that is another rationale for 
re-organizing: that the average user may be misled by the vagueness of the current
news group names.

I think that the majority of the readership and posters of these groups are
professional and/or university research/engineering individuals involved in issues
related to those software engineering 'topics.' (I could have put that better...)

(Anyway, let the hornet's nest open...)

Alex Laney

alex@telecdn.uucp,  ...uunet!telecdn!alex