Newsgroups: news.admin
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Binary groups need their own hierarchy
Message-ID: <1988May22.031701.18412@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <397@pan.UUCP> <5284@sdcrdcf.UUCP>, <22773@bu-cs.BU.EDU>
Date: Sun, 22 May 88 03:17:01 GMT

> newsgroups devoted to specific classes of machines should have their
> own top-level newsclasses...

While I agree that there is some merit to this idea, I really loathe
the idea of YET MORE top-level names.  The length of sys-file lines is
already getting ridiculous.  It is starting to be more of a nuisance
to *get everything* than to be selective -- surely an undesirable state
of affairs.

Note that it is not necessary for a set of groups to have a common name
AT THE TOP LEVEL to selectively include or exclude them in a convenient
way; it suffices that they have a common name at some level.  Saying,
for example, "!comp.binaries" is not much harder than "!bin".  Arranging
alternate distribution paths, backbones, etc. likewise is not much harder.