Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ssyx.ucsc.edu!ulmo From: ulmo@ssyx.ucsc.edu (Brad Allen) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Re: Some possible fixes for the references line Message-ID: <25870@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV> Date: 25 May 89 13:46:24 GMT References: <3222@looking.UUCP> <3243@looking.UUCP> <283@xdos.UUCP> <3248@looking.UUCP> <3252@looking.UUCP> Sender: usenet@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV Reply-To: ulmo@ssyx.ucsc.edu (Brad Allen) Organization: no affiliation with UCSC Lines: 13 > No, the message tree is something that exists independent of your individual > machine. The root is still the root no matter if it has expired off > every machine on the net. But the root usually has very little relevence, at least on the tree systems I'm used to: there is one root message, the very topmost node of the tree, and all 50,000 messages or so are underneath that one message. But that's a very controlled tree at that. On something as large as the world, I can't expect a single root, and I continue to shun the idea of multiple roots since that only entices stupid people to think that any particular discussion ought to stay right on some particular track (which they shouldn't, or not usually).