Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site hou3c.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!hou3c!ka From: ka@hou3c.UUCP (Kenneth Almquist) Newsgroups: net.news.group Subject: Re: Suggestion for *MAJOR* topic reorganization (eliminating "net.") Message-ID: <400@hou3c.UUCP> Date: Thu, 8-Mar-84 10:01:37 EST Article-I.D.: hou3c.400 Posted: Thu Mar 8 10:01:37 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 9-Mar-84 02:02:22 EST References: <696@nsc.UUCP> <2613@alice.UUCP> <708@nsc.UUCP> <1022@pegasus.UUCP> Organization: Bell Labs, Holmdel, NJ Lines: 9 If you eliminate "net." from newsgroup names and rely on the "Distribution:" line to control distribution, the problem is that you loose the ability to create newsgroups that aren't net-wide. There are reasons for creating groups which only exist within a subdomain of the net. Some of the newsgroups we get include att.3b for discussion of the 3B20S processor, att.compete for discussing what the competition is doing, and btl.cc.all for various comp center bulletins. I don't think it would be reasonable to create any of these groups on a netwide basis. Kenneth Almquist