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From: jeff@heurikon.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: Re: new network news structure
Message-ID: <132@heurikon.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 29-Dec-83 20:50:13 EST
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Posted: Thu Dec 29 20:50:13 1983
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"Othernews" sounds nice, but I see this as a potential problem:
I assume that by "when a discussion ends" you mean when 'expire'
has removed all the articles in that (sub)group.  If that were
the method used, then how would someone know what the "proper"
name for a group would be when restarting a discussion?
Wouldn't it be likely that you'd get people restarting an old
discussion under a variety of group names, creating a sort of
group soup?
Possible solution:  A discussion only "ends" after "x" months of
no activity.  However "end" is determined, there would still need to
be some control or "standard" to follow when creating group names.
-- 
	Jeffrey Mattox, Heurikon Corp, Madison, WI
	{harpo, hao, philabs}!seismo!uwvax!heurikon!jeff