Xref: utzoo news.groups:7512 comp.windows.x:8148 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!bu-cs!encore!bzs From: bzs@Encore.COM (Barry Shein) Newsgroups: news.groups,comp.windows.x Subject: Re: comp.andrew vote report Message-ID: <4952@xenna.Encore.COM> Date: 21 Feb 89 22:43:05 GMT References: <7724@paris.ics.uci.edu>, <4937@xenna.Encore.COM> Followup-To: news.groups Organization: Encore Computer Corp, Marlboro, MA Lines: 33 In-reply-to: nsb+@andrew.cmu.edu's message of 21 Feb 89 12:53:07 GMT Posting-Front-End: GNU Emacs 18.41.15 of Tue Jun 9 1987 on xenna (berkeley-unix) From: nsb+@andrew.cmu.edu (Nathaniel Borenstein) >A few MONTHS???? Oh, come on, I've only been resubscribed to news.groups for >two weeks now and I'm dying to be done with it... > >How about if we create an Andrew newsgroup in a moderately reasonable >place for those of us who really want one, and those of you who really >enjoy arguing over the shape of the tree can then reorganize things at >your leisure? We'll happily stay wherever you put us... It was *NOT* my intention to imply that reshaping the tree should affect addition of groups, it wouldn't make much difference. In fact, it would be better if deserving groups *were* added during the process to ensure that the final result reflects a better reality! Nothing like working with old data to screw things up... My estimate of a few months mainly was a prediction of the time from when someone (or ones) volunteer, thru a design proposal, people arguing about it for a while on news.groups, and finally issuing warnings about the impending change and then doing it. All that won't happen in two weeks or even two months (unless someone comes up with a *very* good proposal.) In fact, at this point I'd like to see people shoot for a restructuring proposal developed electronically and then meet at the Baltimore USENIX to get final details out of the way and finally put it into action towards the end of the summer. I think you're going to see it's a bigger deal to coordinate opinion on such a thing then one might hope. Such is consensus. -Barry Shein, ||Encore||