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From: gam@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Gordon Moffett)
Newsgroups: news.groups,news.software.b
Subject: news.software.b --> news.software
Message-ID: <23827@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com>
Date: 6 Mar 88 02:07:59 GMT
Reply-To: gam@amdahl.UUCP (Gordon Moffett)
Followup-To: news.groups
Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA
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To eliminate any confusion about what the newsgroup is
for, I propose that we rename news.software.b to simply
news.software.  It will when clearly be a newsgroup for
discussions of news *software* -- all of it, including rn,
vn and whatever else there is.

As for subgroups of news.software, I am not proposing
any subgroups at this time, as that is a separate issue.
I am only the proposing the renaming, which eliminates
the news.software.b subgroup for now.

Gene Spafford answered my question to the Backbone about how to rename
a newsgroup:

>The procedure I suggested for comp.hypercube (soon to be comp.parallel)
>is:
>
>1) Post an article to news.groups (and news.software.b) explaining
>the proposal for a name change.  Solicit commentary
>
>2) If, after 2 or 3 weeks there is no negative comment of note,
>we issue a newgroup and install aliases.  A week or so after
>that we delete the old group.
>
>--gene
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