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From: chris@umcp-cs.UUCP
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Subject: Re: A good human-factored user interface for postnews
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Date: Tue, 25-Oct-83 00:58:26 EDT
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In fact, we should get rid of the area classification in front of
all the newsgroup names ("net.books", "um.general" would become
"books" and "general") and use the distribution field for that.
Then there should probably be a set of newsgroups which are considered
"local unless otherwise specified."  This should make the distribution
field more understandable (people wouldn't have to ask "Why is
there a distribution field?  We have a net.general and a um.general
for that.").

In other words, "Newsgroup" would be equivalent to "major topic",
"Subject" to "minor topic", and "Distribution" to "where it goes".
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