Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!chaph.usc.edu!phakt.usc.edu!tli From: tli@phakt.usc.edu (Tony Li) Newsgroups: news.groups Subject: Re: mercy rule Message-ID: <8254@chaph.usc.edu> Date: 21 Feb 90 07:42:15 GMT References: <6358@ncar.ucar.edu> Sender: news@chaph.usc.edu Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA Lines: 15 In article emv@math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti) writes: If there were good descriptions of the existing hierarchies, especially the more convoluted ones, it would probably generate both ideas for new groups and a more clear sense of where new groups would fit in. One of my pet ideas for a while has been to have the charter for each group available as an article somewhere in the tree. This seems like a logical extension.... Tony Li - USC Computer Science Department Internet: tli@usc.edu Uucp: usc!tli Thus spake the master programmer: "A well written program is its own heaven; a poorly-written program its own hell."