From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!utah-cs!utah-gr!thomas Newsgroups: net.news.group Title: Re: on the fate of the newsgroup class net.all Article-I.D.: utah-gr.742 Posted: Wed Mar 23 20:49:42 1983 Received: Fri Mar 25 00:21:33 1983 References: cbosgd.3325 Instead of making all these different news groups, what happened to the proposal to tag each article with a "group" and a "distribution"? That makes much more sense to me. Then, instead of having groups sf-lovers, nj.sf-lovers, usa.sf-lovers, na.sf-lovers, and world.sf-lovers (just to pick a random example), you would have a single group sf-lovers, with differing distributions ("local", "nj", "usa", "na", and "world"). All the news in the group would be presented together, and you wouldn't have to remember if the group "nj.sf-lovers" (for example) were already created (assuming that "sf-lovers" exists) when attempting to post a message. Specifying what to forward to another site might get a little more complex, but how often do you edit the sys file as opposed to how often you read or post news? Also, you would like to be able to say in your .newsrc that you, for example, only want local news on that machine. If we're going to upheave everything, we should seriously consider the merits of the current scheme vs all other contenders. (Note that this is easy to map to and from the current scheme at gateways to old news programs.) =Spencer