Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!texbell!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: news.groups Subject: Re: The Topic that wouldn't go away (re: sci vs. talk) Keywords: Objectivism, philosophy, sci.* Message-ID: Date: 2 Feb 90 19:24:25 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> <88511@looking.on.ca> Reply-To: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 16 In article <88511@looking.on.ca> brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton) writes: > a) Getting just one or two hiearchies, or (ie. comp,sci,news) That's us! comp, news, some sci. > With minor fine tuning. With major fine-tuning. And we don't want to do any more. Maybe we want to have the option of conveniently getting sci.philosophy.all? > There are expiring and feeding programs out now that tune to the newsgroup > level, why do we even need these hiearchies? Because some people prefer to not run 47 custom programs on our systems to do stuff we're doing already without them. And we *certainly* don't want to force our feeds to run them. -- _--_|\ 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?" `-_-'