From: utzoo!decvax!duke!unc!mcnc!cjp Newsgroups: net.news.group,net.general Title: Re: on the fate of the newsgroup class net.all Article-I.D.: mcnc.1604 Posted: Thu Mar 24 01:15:12 1983 Received: Fri Mar 25 08:11:20 1983 References: cbosgd.3325 I have thought for a long time that the currently-implemented scheme for attaching articles to newsgroups is inadequate. I would like to see developed a syntax, and appropriate software, which allows sending news articles to the *intersection* of newsgroups in addition to the (currently implemented) union of newsgroups. Example syntax: nj*news.group. Or, if more flexibility is needed, [nj,ho]*news.group. Users could presumably get by with the present subscription syntax. Only those users (or systems) subscribing to all the groups named in an intersection would have to receive the article. Such a scheme would simplify the implementation of geographically limited newsgroups. It would not have to interfere with existing newsgroup names, however it might be appropriate to change the "net.groupname" groups to "net*" intersections with the "groupname" portions for net-wide news items. Any comments, or ideas on how tough this would be to push through at this late stage of net development? Charles J. Poirier decvax!mcnc!cjp