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Subject: Re: new network news structure - (nf)
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Date: Fri, 6-Jan-84 04:53:26 EST
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uokvax!andree    Jan  4 21:36:00 1984

No, OTHERNEWS is not QUITE notes. Notes has the syntax:

	note :== <message> <response-list>
	response-list :== <response> <response-list> | <null>
	response :== <message>

Whereas othernews would be (at least, this is the impression I got):

	topic :== <message> <response-list>
	response-list :== <topic> <response-list> | <null>

This is what I thought notes was when I first looked at it. I was dissapointed.
The other difference is that notes still maintains the newsgroups, whereas
with othernews, these would apparently be subsumed into topics.

I'm still considering othernews as a replacement for notes. I like the idea
a lot better, but I'm not sure how it would work in the UUCPNet environment.

	<mike