Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site alice.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!alice!alb From: alb@alice.UUCP (Adam L. Buchsbaum) Newsgroups: net.news.group Subject: Re: Suggestion for *MAJOR* topic reorganization Message-ID: <2629@alice.UUCP> Date: Thu, 1-Mar-84 20:57:59 EST Article-I.D.: alice.2629 Posted: Thu Mar 1 20:57:59 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 3-Mar-84 07:45:31 EST References: <1022@pegasus.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill Lines: 20 We can't rely on the Distribution field so much, merely because not all sites run software which supports it (unfortunately). Now, don't give me the argument, ''Well, that's their fault; if they're not going to keep up to date, to hell with them.'' It may be a reasonable argument (yes, I believe everyone should run current software), but if we are going to make such a major upheaval, we simply have to make sure that the entire net will still run. If we rely on Distribution, the simple fact is that it won't. As for the huge topic reorganization, I am against it. The incredible confusion and disarray it would cause outways the supposed benefits. A major reorg like that would only serve to confuse matters and make things worse, yes worse, and dirtier than they are now. What we have to do is just make sure that new groups are (1) actually needed and (2) put in the right place. If we organize from here on, we can bear the slight disorganization that we now have. Sometimes it's better to live with a little mess than to make a bigger one by scrubbing too hard. Adam