Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!whuxle!mit-eddie!genrad!wjh12!n44a!ima!inmet!tower From: tower@inmet.UUCP Newsgroups: net.news.group Subject: Re: Yet Another Newsgroup Streamlining ( - (nf) Message-ID: <1010@inmet.UUCP> Date: Wed, 7-Mar-84 05:58:30 EST Article-I.D.: inmet.1010 Posted: Wed Mar 7 05:58:30 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 8-Mar-84 19:28:12 EST Lines: 49 #R:oliveb:-29300:inmet:7000048:000:1804 inmet!tower Mar 7 00:10:00 1984 Re: Yet Another Newsgroup Streamlining. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ I not in favor of this idea, but... oliveb!toml is overkilling net.comp . This is a network on computers for computer professionals, so let's not over do the comp grouping. Leave as is: net.bugs.all net.cse.{all,cai} net.lang.all net.motss .... for the reason it has this name. net.micro.all net.sport.all .... overdoing net.ent . net.sources net.unix.all .... this is the UUCP network! .... perhaps net.eunice -> net.unix.eunice net.wanted .... why net.needed at all?? .... perhaps net.general.wanted Perhaps additionally have (to oliveb!toml suggestions): net.cs.{ai, cog-eng, dcom, crypt, graphics, lan, std} net.eng.{analog, columbia, space} .... and civil, mech, et.al. if the need is ever shown. net.hw.{periphs, term, term-info} net.sw.{emacs, mail.all, notes, text, usoft.all} .... perhaps add a net.sw.os for completness. net.sys.{oa, works.all, vss} net.home.{consumers, cooks, garden, invest, kids, legal, med, pets, roots, taxes, travel, veg, wines} .... OR net.pers.all net.social.{women.all} net.rec.{audio, railroad} net.usrgrp.{decus, usenix} .... no net.usrgrp needed ?? net.vehicle.{auto, aviation, bicyle, cycle} net.viewpt.{philosophy, politics, poems, religion.all, suicide} That still leaves too many top-level singletons, but a little more thought should group most of the rest of them. -len tower harpo!inmet!tower Cambridge, MA ------------------------------------------------------------------------