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From: peter@taronga.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: Proposal for radical re-organization of these news groups.
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Date: Sat, 13 Apr 1991 00:35:04 GMT

alex@telecdn.uucp (Alex Laney) writes:
> This is of course,  way out in left field...

No, it's pretty reasonable actually.

> I would like to put forth the proposal to rename the following newsgroups...

> 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

I suggested a similar hierarchy during the discussion period of many of
those groups. The following group could also fit under the same
hierarchy:

comp.sw.components	Software components and related technology.

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

How about using the existing comp.sw hierarchy?

	comp.sw.engineering
	comp.sw.cog-eng
	somp.sw.groupware
	comp.sw.multimedia
	comp.sw.object
	comp.sw.realtime
	comp.sw.specifications
	comp.sw.components
	comp.sw.misc

(just a suggestion, in the interest of avoiding COBOL fingers)
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