Xref: utzoo news.groups:8486 news.admin:5288 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ukma!david From: david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae) Newsgroups: news.groups,news.admin Subject: Re: Proposed OFFICIAL Newsgroup Creation/Deletion Guidelines Message-ID: <11346@s.ms.uky.edu> Date: 27 Mar 89 18:45:51 GMT References: <37740@bbn.COM> <27806@apple.Apple.COM> <5134@cbnews.ATT.COM> <27870@apple.Apple.COM> Reply-To: david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae) Organization: U of Kentucky, Mathematical Sciences Lines: 23 Chuqui -- how 'bout: 6) You don't want an overly simple namespace. The reasons you don't want an overly simple namespace are twofold: a) The naive user with his/her myriad of questions keeps finding one place to post questions to when the questions are really on many topics. This raises volume in each group needlessly. b) Splitting traffic flow over a smaller number of groups makes it easier for individual postings to be lost in the shuffle. Oh yeah, small number of groups doesn't necessarily mean a simple namespace, and neither does a large number of groups mean a complex one. But they tend to follow from each other. It's a balancing act between keeping the namespace simple & keeping it usable. -- <- David Herron; an MMDF guy <- ska: David le casse\*' {rutgers,uunet}!ukma!david, david@UKMA.BITNET <- <- The problem with mnemonics is they mean different things to different people.