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From: robert@erix.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.news.group,net.news
Subject: Re: nuke net.general? & a radical proposal
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Date: Thu, 28-Jun-84 11:28:50 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun 28 11:28:50 1984
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Organization: L M Ericsson, Stockholm, Sweden
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>Now for a radical proposal:
>
>We've had a lot of discussion in this group (and others) about the
>structure of the news and the difficulty of changing the status quo.
>Personally, I think most of it isn't correct.  I think we could pull
>off a wholesale change in the news structure with only a couple of
>weeks of minor confusion, if even that.  We have the news and mail as
>major tools, we only need to use them properly.  Let me propose Spaf's
>solution to the net debate (I so enjoy entropy):
>

I whole-heartedly agree. If something is to be done to tidy up the
newsgroups mess then it must be a radical change, otherwise it will
only be delaying the inevitable crash. Removing a few groups will not
help in the long run.

>	1) Decide on an altered newsgroup structure.  No timidity
>	   here.  Merge net.general, net.misc and net.followup.  Move a
>	   bunch of groups under net.sci.  Create a couple of new
>	   subgroups under net.wanted, remove net.wobegon, create a
>	   bunch of "usa." and "world." groups, or whatever else it
>	   takes to come up with a logical topic structure (WITHOUT
>	   worrying about how different it may be from the current
>	   structure).

Definitely! Use the names of the groups to show where the messages will
br distributed to. In Europe we have a eunet, create a usa or na for
groups that should not cross the oceans and use world, or net, for
groups that is to be sent everywhere.

This would help us in Europe as there have been many complaints about
bringing over groups that contain a lot of "local" american
information. A radical change in the groups structure would definitely
help to alleviate this problem.

			Robert Virding  @ L M Ericsson, Stockholm