Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ndsuvax!ncoverby
From: ncoverby@ndsuvax.UUCP (Glen Overby)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Binary groups need their own hierarchy
Summary: not a HIERARCHY -- a DISTRIBUTION
Message-ID: <908@ndsuvax.UUCP>
Date: 22 May 88 03:07:40 GMT
References: <397@pan.UUCP> <5284@sdcrdcf.UUCP> <22773@bu-cs.BU.EDU>
Reply-To: ncoverby@ndsuvax.UUCP (Glen Overby)
Organization: Silo Tech  Fargo, ND
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In article <22773@bu-cs.BU.EDU> tower@bu-it.bu.edu (Leonard H. Tower Jr.) writes:
>newsgroups devoted to specific classes of machines should have their
>own top-level newsclasses.  All PC's should be included.  I'm not sure
>about mini-/main/super-computers.

Rather than muddling the current comp. soc. sci. etc. naming scheme, why
not bring in a new DISTRIBUTION.  We've even got that mechanism in place.

>I suggest for starters, the following top level classes with their own
>backbones:

>ibm-pc.all
>mac.all
>apple2.all
>amiga.all
>atari.all

Distribution codes could be the same (minus the ".all").

*BUT* if a separate distribution hierarchy is set up (or even if it's not..)
why not create a mechanism to transport binaries AS binaries, rather than
doing hokey ASCIIfication of them?  Then sites which compress news can
compress directly off of the binary itself.  Obviously, many changes would
have to be made to our current news readers and such; I haven't thought
out exactly HOW to do this.


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Glen Overby
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