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From: mehl@cs.iastate.edu (Mark M Mehl)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: DISCUSSION: What about: news.readers.nn
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Date: 17 Dec 89 04:39:05 GMT
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bill@twwells.com (T. William Wells) writes:
>In article <429@texas.dk> storm@texas.dk (Kim F. Storm) writes:
>: I would therefore like to hit two birds with one stone, and suggest
>: that we create a new
>:
>:       news.readers
>:
>: hierarchy, and that
>:
>:       news.readers.nn

>Hey, I'm a news reader! Is this group for me? :-)

>Seriously, the idea has merit, but the name news.readers could
>stand a rethink.

Yes, the name could be confusing to a new Usenetter.  That's why a name
like news.software.readers.nn would be better.  Of course, if Usenet
plans to rename news.software.* to news.transport.*, then the earlier
proposed name (news.readers.nn) may have to do.

Incidently, I like nn very much and would support a news group for it.
I only wonder what's going to happen to the group
news.newusers.questions since it's already devoted to answering news
reader questions.  In fact, I've thought about posting some of my own
nn questions there.  Would it be better to simply replace
news.newusers.questions with news.readers.questions.[rn,nn]?  Afterall,
this would be the place for "news readers" (the human type) to post
their questions, and I think even the newuser could figure this out
from this title.
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