Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!rutgers!ukma!david
From: david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- Resident E-mail Hack)
Newsgroups: news.groups,news.software.b
Subject: Re: news.software.c
Message-ID: <7508@e.ms.uky.edu>
Date: Fri, 16-Oct-87 15:42:15 EDT
Article-I.D.: e.7508
Posted: Fri Oct 16 15:42:15 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 17-Oct-87 23:18:56 EDT
References: <7469@e.ms.uky.edu> <8777@utzoo.UUCP>
Reply-To: david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- Resident E-mail Hack)
Organization: U of Kentucky, Mathematical Sciences
Lines: 18
Xref: mnetor news.groups:1732 news.software.b:870

In article <8777@utzoo.UUCP> henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) writes:
>> With the impending distribution of C News, shouldn't there be
>> a matching newsgroup created?
>It's not worth it right now.  There really probably should be just one
>newsgroup, "news.software", since to date there isn't enough diversity
>in traffic to justify even the subdivision that we now have.

Yes ... I agree the traffic is very low.  On the other hand, 2 years from
now when the B version is but a dim memory people will ask why the newsgroup
name is ".b".  

On the other hand, does it make more sense to just combine
the two existing news.software groups (.b and .nntp) into one?
-- 
<---- David Herron,  Local E-Mail Hack,  david@ms.uky.edu, david@ms.uky.csnet
<----                    {rutgers,uunet,cbosgd}!ukma!david, david@UKMA.BITNET
<---- I thought that time was this neat invention that kept everything
<---- from happening at once.  Why doesn't this work in practice?