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From: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery)
Newsgroups: news.groups,comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: An alternate method of splitting high volume groups
Message-ID: <7145@ncoast.UUCP>
Date: 30 Jan 88 03:07:40 GMT
References: <22603@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <559@cresswell.quintus.UUCP>
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As quoted from <559@cresswell.quintus.UUCP> by pds@quintus.UUCP (Peter Schachte):
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| In article <22603@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>, bryce@hoser.berkeley.edu (Bryce Nesbitt) writes:
| > has been a remarkable number of "write-in" votes for a much more radical
| > approach.  The exact details vary, but they are all quite close in
| > principle.  Basically they are saying: "I'd like to see it split MORE
| > ways".
> (long list deleted)
| > Etc, etc, etc. The more the merrier. Cross-posting is to be *encouraged*.
| 
| I can't comment on the cost of splitting up groups this finely, but I
| imagine the benefits would be MUCH greater.  I imagine that most
| 
| For all you net.oldtimers:  has something like this ever been tried?
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It has not been tried in the time that I've been reading the net (since mid
1983).

Just to be even more radical:  anyone for an "alternative subnetwork" that
does things this way?  Sites interested in participating in the experiment
would carry the groups, the rest could go on as is.  This would also allow us
to take the experiment even further by treating the entire newsgroup hierarchy
as keywords.

I'm willing to talk with interested sysadmins who might want to organize such
a subnet.  If there's enough interest, we can draft a set of guidelines and
the initial keyword space, then announce the availability of the subnetwork.
(Either that or it's time for a certain net.nuisance to put his money where
his keyboard is and post the keyword-based news he claimed to be playing with
a few months ago.)
-- 
	      Brandon S. Allbery, moderator of comp.sources.misc
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