Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site oliveb.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!oliveb!toml From: toml@oliveb.UUCP (Dave Long) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Why we need to change the newsgroup structure now Message-ID: <296@oliveb.UUCP> Date: Wed, 7-Mar-84 01:13:54 EST Article-I.D.: oliveb.296 Posted: Wed Mar 7 01:13:54 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 3-Mar-84 22:40:45 EST Organization: Nethermost Tumbolia Lines: 25 [Jul ner lbh ernqvat guvf?] We need to change the newsgroup structure now for several reasons. Among them are: @ It will be a lot less painful if we do it now. I don't have any data, but the number of news-users is probably growing quite rapidly. We should do it before it gets to the point where it is too troublesome to keep it the way it is, and it is also too troublesome to change it. @ With a better newsgroup structure, there would be fewer postings to inaccurate newsgroups, and most newsgroup purposes would be clearer. @ If we accomplished this change, it might also reduce the anarchy of the network and provide a more cohesive structure as a result of the work going into making the change. For those of you who think that it is already too much trouble to convert, see my article in net.news.group. Flames are welcome, and I will reply if I am able to. -- Dave Long {ucbvax,decvax}!decwrl!ios!oliveb!toml hplabs!oliveb!toml allegra!oliveb!toml