Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site cybvax0.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!cybvax0!mrh 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 Lines: 33 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. -- Mike Huybensz ...decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!cybvax0!mrh