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From: itkin@luke.UUCP (Steven List)
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: Re: Requesting new newsgroup: NET.SOURCES.PC
Message-ID: <283@luke.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 16-Jul-85 14:15:58 EDT
Article-I.D.: luke.283
Posted: Tue Jul 16 14:15:58 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 18-Jul-85 06:16:02 EDT
References: <1955@ukma.UUCP> <3203@cca.UUCP> <423@moncol.UUCP>
Reply-To: itkin@luke.UUCP (Steven List)
Organization: Benetics Corp, Mt.View, CA
Lines: 35
Keywords: Logical creation of subgroups
Summary: 

In article <423@moncol.UUCP> john@moncol.UUCP (John Ruschmeyer) writes:
>]>	Let's start a new newsgroup called NET.SOURCES.PC.  Quite a few of
>]>the non-VAX sources submitted are for the IBM PC anyway, so why not make it
>]>official?
>]
>]How do people feel now?
>
>   Personally, I find the creation of a group called net.sources.micro to
>be very disturbing...
>   The only logical breakdown of net.sources is along the lines of
>operating system. Ideally, the structure should look something like this:
>
>	net.sources		(posting of generic UNIX sources)
>	   .
>	   .
>	   .
>	net.sources.bugs	(bug reports)

I think John has the right GENERAL idea, but disagree on the specifics.
Instead of proliferating new newsgroups, why not eliminate net.sources,
net.sources.games and take advantage of mod.sources?  Then the
moderator could identify the category (if possible) and compatibility
(also if possible) and everyone could determine if they were interested
from the Keywords: message.

The above assumes, of course, that john@genrad is willing.  If not,
there seems to be enough interest (and enough interested parties) that
someone else could help out.  It seems the direction should be away from
the generally accessible newsgroups and toward the moderated.
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