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From: ulmo@ssyx.ucsc.edu (Brad Allen)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: article sizes (was: Usenet volume)
Summary: no on blatant changes without thought
Message-ID: <5914@saturn.ucsc.edu>
Date: 5 Jan 89 03:34:10 GMT
References: <10813@swan.ulowell.edu> <128400002@inmet>
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Reply-To: ulmo@ssyx.ucsc.edu (Brad Allen)
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In article <128400002@inmet> justin@inmet writes:
>-- Eliminate crossposting *as it now exists*. Instead, enable users to
>   subscribe only to a particular topic within a newsgroup, instead of
>   the whole group.
You imply that you'd rather have messages categorized very specifically.
Fine.  What is totally wrong with your idea though is that you're forgetting
that the more specific something gets, the more areas it fits into.
You have to allow for crossposting, links to more than one topic, etc.
if you want a good reading system; otherwise, you'll have to scan just about
every topic you can dream up, seeing whether anyone posted something you
wanted to know about in what they thought was that area.

Also -- rn eliminates redisplayal of crossposted material anyway; is this a
problem with other readers?  That should be fixed, for just this reason ...
if so, should I ask someone to let me help make sure this gets done?

another semantic mumbling from
brad allen <ulmo@ssyx.ucsc.edu>