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From: wmartin@brl-tgr.ARPA (Will Martin )
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: Why not call net.general net.everyone?
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Date: Tue, 5-Jun-84 16:00:18 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun  5 16:00:18 1984
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It would also have the advantage of putting what is now "net.general"
BEFORE "net.followup", instead of after it, as it now is on all
machines with an alphabetic organization of the active groups.

That way, you could see the submissions BEFORE the followups,
since the software doesn't allow you any personal control over
the order of presentation (reference earlier discussion on that
topic).

Anybody know why, when USENET was created in the computer center
over in the northwest corner of the Garden of Eden, "net.followup"
was not named "net.general.followup" so it would come AFTER
net.general on all machines automatically? Must have been that snake
coiled up by the console...

Will