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
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