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From: mrh@cybvax0.UUCP (Mike Huybensz)
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: Re: More Newsgroup Changes
Message-ID: <693@cybvax0.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 21-Aug-85 10:31:33 EDT
Article-I.D.: cybvax0.693
Posted: Wed Aug 21 10:31:33 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 24-Aug-85 13:20:24 EDT
References: <1430@cbosgd.UUCP>
Reply-To: mrh@cybvax0.UUCP (Mike Huybensz)
Organization: Cybermation, Inc., Cambridge, MA
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Summary: 

In article <1430@cbosgd.UUCP> spaf@gatech.UUCP (Gene Spafford) writes:
[Many good suggestions (not pertinent) deleted...  MRH]
> Suggestion 7:  move "net.abortion" to "net.flame.abortion"
> Suggestion 8:  move "net.origins" to "net.flame.origins"

Neither of these two suggestions seems appropriate to me.

First, because they are judgemental.  Some of the argument in those files
is not flame: do we want to discourage that portion?

Second, if newsgroups with flamage should be subgroups of net.flame,
we will surrender most of the "natural" classification we are trying to
develop for newsgroups.  Because we really should have net.flame.politics,
net.flame.news.group and net.flame.unix by these standards.

A more natural classification would be:

Suggestion 7b:  move "net.abortion" to "net.politics.abortion"
Suggestion 8b:  move "net.origins" to "net.sci.origins"

There would still be reasons to oppose these moves, though they are minor.
For example, there is always a little leakage to parent newsgroups,
and these specialty groups were created to keep these topics separate.
Also, "origins" is a wonderfully non-committant term; making it sci.origins
may imply a goal or standard which some writers would object to or be
deterred by, and also may imply scientific validity of writings that some
oppose.

In conclusion, I like things the way they are now, but would prefer my
suggested changes to the originally suggested changes.
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Mike Huybensz		...decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!cybvax0!mrh