Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!texbell!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: news.groups Subject: micro.*??? Re: The Topic that wouldn't go away (re: sci vs. talk) Keywords: Objectivism, philosophy, sci.* Message-ID: Date: 1 Feb 90 22:22:26 GMT References: <3284@iitmax.IIT.EDU> <3285@iitmax.IIT.EDU> <9442@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> <7346@tank.uchicago.edu> <1990Feb1.005817.1786@everexn.uucp> <38268@apple.Apple.COM> Reply-To: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 16 Well, how about splitting off two new hierarchies? arts.* Arts and Humanities. tech.* Technology and Engineering (excluding computers). Then we can mass-move some groups out of sci. In article <38268@apple.Apple.COM> chuq@Apple.COM (Chuq Von Rospach) writes: > The only new domain I'd like to see is 'micro.*', How about compromising on comp.pc, as a parallel to comp.sys? It's not so hard to put "!comp.pc" in your sys file. If we're going to split comp, pulling "sources.*" and "binaries.*" out would be a goodness. Like it or not, micros are computers. And they're getting into bigger and bigger jobs and absorbing more and more of the computer market. -- _--_|\ Peter da Silva. +1 713 274 5180. . / \ \_.--._/ Xenix Support -- it's not just a job, it's an adventure! v "Have you hugged your wolf today?" `-_-'