Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles $Revision: 1.6.2.16 $; site prism.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!think!harvard!bbnccv!prism!matt From: matt@prism.UUCP Newsgroups: net.news.group Subject: Re: spaf's note on fa->mod groups Message-ID: <9100001@prism.UUCP> Date: Wed, 23-Oct-85 10:54:00 EDT Article-I.D.: prism.9100001 Posted: Wed Oct 23 10:54:00 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 26-Oct-85 05:31:52 EDT Lines: 37 Nf-ID: #N:prism:9100001:000:1979 Nf-From: prism!matt Oct 23 10:54:00 1985 /* Written 9:13 am Oct 21, 1985 by spaf@gatech in prism:net.announce */ /* ---------- ""fa" to "mod" group conversion star" ---------- */ > For those of you who don't read net.news.group, let me summarize some > of the major reasons why this change is occuring: > > 2) With the "mod" groups, simply putting the > moderator name and path in the "moderators" file on each machine > will result in "postnews" and "Pnews" (from Larry Wall's "rn" > package) being usable to submit articles. > Rich $alz here at Mirror Systems (mirror!rs) has also modified Notes 1.7 to know about moderated newsgroups, and automatically post submissions to the moderator. I believe source diffs were posted to the net recently, but if not, I will MAIL diff listings upon request. > 5) Better naming. Besides providing a beter structure, this also > allows some opportunity to provide a more explanative name for some > of these groups. Our experience has shown that (for instance) some > people thought "fa.sun-spots" was for astronomy buffs, and that > "fa.laser-lovers" was for physicists. The new names, > "mod.computers.sun" and "mod.computers.laser-printers" should be > more easily understood by someone who hasn't looked though the list > of groups recently. Has anyone considered that the new mod names (mod.computers.*) are not significant within the first 14 characters? This will break sites running older versions of news and notes. Is it too late to request a name change? (Perhaps mod.comp.*?) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Matt Landau ARPA: matt%mirror@cca Mirror Systems, Inc. UUCP: {decvax!cca, ima!inmet, mit-eddie, wjh12}... Cambridge, MA ...mirror!matt ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Blessed are they that run around in circles, for they shall be known as wheels.