Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!milano!zephyr!werner From: werner@zephyr.sw.mcc.com (Werner Uhrig) Newsgroups: news.groups Subject: Re: mercy rule Message-ID: <3486@zephyr.sw.mcc.com> Date: 21 Feb 90 10:27:17 GMT References: <6358@ncar.ucar.edu> Reply-To: werner@zephyr.sw.mcc.com (Werner Uhrig) Organization: MCC, Austin, Texas Lines: 25 In lear@turbo.bio.net (Eliot) writes: >Actually, I have only one problem with Ed's proposal. I am worried >about people going off in a stampede and placing a group in the wrong >hierarchy. If we had much better definitions for the hierarchies, >this wouldn't be so much of a problem. oh, but we now have two net-gods watching over news-group proposals and creation (Greg moderating rec.announce.newgroups and Chuq creating the new groups after the voting is completed) and they are quite reasonable (not to say clever) in helping with the correct placement of new groups in the name-space. I'm not worried, really... I'm not saying that I support Ed's proposal, but rather that I don't think Eliot's argument is valid. "better definitions" sound like "hard and fast rules" and I'd rather have some reasonable people guiding the process of naming new groups than some inflexible definitions ... for me, Chuq and Greg are good enough definitions for the time being... -- --------------------------> please send REPLIES to <------------------------ INTERNET: werner@cs.utexas.edu or: werner@rascal.ics.utexas.edu (Internet # 128.83.144.1) UUCP: ...!cs.utexas.edu!werner