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Subject: Re: Destroying Unused Newsgroups: A Proposal
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Date: Thu, 29-Dec-83 14:07:01 EST
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Posted: Thu Dec 29 14:07:01 1983
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I concur with the suggestions for pruning unused subgroups.
In addition, I would like to suggest that news would better
be kept in full hierarchical form similar to the way that
many Bulletin Board Systems do. To get the flavor of how
that works out, try Big Tree "Stuart II" BBS in California
at (408) 338-9511, a small BBS where the natives are friendly.

It seems absurd to me that, given we're all using Unix and its
widely acclaimed tree structured file system, we force news into
such an awkward shape: a two level tree. Why not an N-level tree?
I'm tired of jumping around trying to find followup messages, or
reading sequentially and keeping track of 30 discussions in parallel.
Fleshing the structure out to a full tree (hopefully with colateral
links for cross-referencing) would help greatly in keeping track of
each of our interests.
	Doug Merritt

P.S. I'm not fully up on the net yet, so meanwhile replies directed here
(...!amd70!onyx!guest) will reach me. In about a month I'll be at
...!amd70!onyx!molecular!doug.