Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site ucbvax.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!ucbvax!fair From: fair@ucbvax.ARPA (Erik E. Fair) Newsgroups: net.news.group Subject: proposed new structure for `fa' groups Message-ID: <10523@ucbvax.ARPA> Date: Thu, 3-Oct-85 03:36:24 EDT Article-I.D.: ucbvax.10523 Posted: Thu Oct 3 03:36:24 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 4-Oct-85 03:53:36 EDT Organization: University of California at Berkeley Lines: 76 ``The time has come,'' the Walrus said, ``To speak of many things. Of shoes and ships and sealing wax, and cabbages and kings. Of why the sea is boiling hot, and whether pigs have wings.'' - Lewis Carrol The `fa' groups are a relic of an earlier age. It has been suggested many times that they be moved into mod.* groups, because the mod.* mechanism correctly reflects the nature of these groups. I am now ready to do so. Here is the new naming structure that I propose: fa.laser-lovers -> mod.computers.laser-printers fa.info-mac -> mod.computers.macintosh fa.info-vax -> mod.computers.vax net.works -> mod.computers.works (now gatewayed by rutgers) fa.human-nets -> mod.human-nets fa.poli-sci -> mod.politics fa.arms-d -> mod.politics.arms-d info-applebus -> mod.protocols.appletalk (now hiding inside fa.info-mac) fa.info-kermit -> mod.protocols.kermit fa.tcp-ip -> mod.protocols.tcp-ip fa.telecom -> mod.telecom fa.info-vlsi -> mod.vlsi fa.arpa-bboard -> net.announce.arpa-internet fa.info-terms -> net.info-terms (bi-directional gateway) Mailing lists which are probably of interest that are not gatewayed as yet: info-ibmpc -> mod.computers.ibm-pc info-pyramid -> mod.computers.pyramid sun-spots -> mod.computers.sun info-apollo -> mod.computers.apollo List of Moderators: mod.human-nets human-nets@red.rutgers.edu mod.telecom telecom@red.rutgers.edu mod.computers.macintosh info-mac@sumex-aim.arpa mod.computers.vax info-vax@sri-kl.arpa mod.computers.vlsi info-vlsi@sandia-cad.arpa mod.computers.laser-printers laser-lovers@washington.arpa mod.computers.works works@red.rutgers.edu mod.protocols.tcp-ip tcp-ip@sri-nic.arpa mod.protocols.kermit info-kermit@cu20b.columbia.edu mod.protocols.appletalk info-applebus@c.cs.cmu.edu mod.politics poli-sci@red.rutgers.edu mod.politics.arms-d arms-d@mit-mc.arpa mod.computers.ibm-pc info-ibmpc@usc-eclb.arpa mod.computers.pyramid info-pyramid@mimsey.umd.edu mod.computers.sun sun-spots@rice.edu mod.computers.apollo info-apollo@yale.arpa net.announce.arpa-internet arpanet-bboards@mit-mc.arpa Plan: 1) Create new mod.* groups, and move existing fa.* traffic into them. 2) Start gatewaying the other lists not currently gatewayed. 3) delete old `fa' groups. The only issue I see as controversial are the actual names to be used. Gene Spaffordhas suggested that `systems' be substituted for `computers' to broaden the range of topics that fall under that rubric. I think that `computers' sufficiently describes the entire spectrum without being overly broad. Comments? keeper of the network news for ucbvax, and guardian of the gateway, Erik E. Fair ucbvax!fair fair@ucbarpa.BERKELEY.EDU