From: utzoo!decvax!wivax!linus!smk
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Title: Re: On the fate of net.general
Article-I.D.: linus.24757
Posted: Wed Apr 27 21:01:42 1983
Received: Thu Apr 28 05:20:23 1983
References: uw-beave.549

	Do we want net.mod.foo or net.foo.mod?  In the former, we have a
subnet of moderated newsgroups.  In the latter, we have newsgroups with
a .mod qualifier.  (I guess it's like having c.prog rather than prog.c.)
If people are serious about moderated groups, the latter approach is better
in the sense that disgruntled sites can put !net.mod into their
sys (and .newsrc) files but probably won't (or have a harder time)
singling out all the groups.  The two approaches are different
on appearances only, not on functionality.  If you want
mod to be naturally accepted to various newsgroups, I propose the latter
implementations so that the mod is attached to the group and the group is
NOT attached to mod.

These views represent the opinion of this installation and not of the
author (how's that for a change?).