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From: kolstad@parsec.UUCP
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Subject: Re: new network news structure - (nf)
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Date: Sun, 8-Jan-84 22:42:43 EST
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parsec!kolstad    Jan  8 16:40:00 1984

The "othernews"  scheme was tried on Plato many years ago.  It failed because
people could not handle parsing through all the branches of a tree to see
an entire discussion before they responded.  In the end, no one was
reading anything.

The "list of lists" Plato notesfile philosophy seems superior in the end.

You may have to do the experiment again, however, to convince yourself.


						Rk