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From: toml@oliveb.UUCP (Dave Long)
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: Ideas to help smooth the transition
Message-ID: <295@oliveb.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 7-Mar-84 01:03:19 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar  7 01:03:19 1984
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[Jul ner lbh ernqvat guvf?]

    Here are some ideas I have thought of to help smooth the transition when
we change the netnews group structure.

  @     Decide well in advance what the new->old newsgroup mappings are going
    to be.
  @     Have a 'tumbolia' newsgroup, for holding articles that are mailed to
    an old newsgroup, plus a couple of simple awk(1) scripts for switching them
    to the new ones.
  @     Post a complete list of new->old newsgroup mappings to net.announce.
    It might be advisable to put them in the help-files for a while.
  @     Don't create and delete all of the old and new newsgroups all at once.
    Create the equivalent of the high-traffic newsgroups first, and place plenty
    of pointers in their old counterparts.  Then start doing the same thing to
    the rest of the groups, so the low-traffic newsgroups get a week or so in
    the middle of the transition period, while the larger newsgroups overlap for
    a period of time, while discussions in them are moved.

    For those of you who don't see why we should change the newsgroup structure,
see my article in net.flame.  If you still don't agree, then send me flames.
I will reply if I can.

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					    Dave Long
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