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Subject: Re: More Newsgroup Changes
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Date: Wed, 28-Aug-85 09:57:00 EDT
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>/* Written  1:06 pm  Aug 23, 1985 by stevenh@tekig4 in mirror:net.news.group */
>I think these four groups are doing just fine the way they are. These groups
>have enough traffic that they should be their own groups and not be subgroups.
What's wrong with making them a subgroup?  I use notes, not news, so I
don't know what the problem is; outside of the extra "." what changes?

In general, I'm in favor of collapsing astro,physics,space,columbia,
into subgroups in net.sci.  (N.b., net.sci.columbia; maybe net.space.columbia
if not?)

Perhaps we could collapse net.{abortion,women,singles,motss} into
net.soc, for social issues?  It seems a very valid classsification,
but two drawbacks come to mind: a)  the name makes it easy for overloaded
sites to determine which groups to cut :-) and b) it might encourage
creation of even more groups (e.g., not.soc.disabled).

I think the projects thing is best handled as a set of distributed
mailing lists, with (monthly?) updates appearing in net.announce;
otherwise it becomes two unwieldy.  In fact, there already is such
a group in existance -- working on a project that all netters should
have a great deal of interest in:  GNU.   (Briefly, the "Gnu's Not Unix"
project is an attempt to write a public-domain Unix(tm)-like system.
If you don't think there's something in that for everyone, then...)
Contact rms@mit-eddie for more info.

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