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From: woods@hao.UUCP (Greg Woods)
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Subject: Re: Comments on Reorganization
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Date: Thu, 25-Sep-86 13:39:55 EDT
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In article <15777@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>, desj@brahms.BERKELEY.EDU (David desJardins) writes:
> Could you explain how the reorganization will make it
> easier to create, delete, and rename groups?  

  Well, it obviously won't eliminate all the problems associated with this
process, but what it will do is eliminate a lot of the fighting about *where*
a group belongs, and whether or not a group exists that could handle discussions
that might go into the proposed new group. Since it will also be much easier
for sites that are concerned about resource use to control what groups they
get (without 50-line sys file entries), there may well be fewer objections
to creating new groups. Because there is a "misc" group in every category,
it will be easier to delete groups because no one will be able to complain
that there is now nowhere to post the discussions that formerly took place
in the deleted group.
  No, it is not a final solution and it does not address some of the serious
problems associated with creating and deleting groups. But hopefully the 
second phase of reorganization (after the renaming of groups) will involve
the setting of better-defined criteria for whether a new group should be
created, and for the first time, setting criteria for deleting existing
groups. This means that existing groups will have to have enough traffic
to justify their continuation, which has never really been true in the
past. 

--Greg