Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 beta 3/9/83; site nsc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!menlo70!nsc!chuqui From: chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach) Newsgroups: net.news.group Subject: Re: Suggestions for slight topic re-organization Message-ID: <713@nsc.UUCP> Date: Tue, 28-Feb-84 14:33:35 EST Article-I.D.: nsc.713 Posted: Tue Feb 28 14:33:35 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 2-Mar-84 15:43:51 EST References: <696@nsc.UUCP> <2613@alice.UUCP> <326@hou3c.UUCP> <1012@cbosgd.UUCP> Organization: National Semiconductor, Sunnyvale Lines: 23 The optimal way of handling it would be to have software in news that does for messages what symbolic links do for 4.2 so we can simply repoint things to a new topic. Realistically, what we are talking about is a complicated changeover period where we create the new topics and scream at people until they start using them, and finally remove the old ones after the transition seems relatively stable. I would assume that we could do this in a period of about a month if we really wanted to, and if we used net.general and net.announce to make sure that the people and administrators know whats happening and what needs to be done (unfortunately, a significant percentange of net administrators don't seem to read net.news.all, so we are going to have to inundate the net to get to them... *sigh*) This is not going to be easy, so we are going to have to be very careful about making sure that it is done right (if, of course, it is decided to be done at all. For once, I am refusing to make assumptions... (*gasp*)). chuq -- From the Citadel of the Autarch: Chuqui the Plaid {fortune,menlo70}!nsc!chuqui P.S. Nuke Wobegon! Don't dream it, be it!