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From: matt@prism.UUCP
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Subject: Re: spaf's note on fa->mod groups
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Date: Wed, 23-Oct-85 10:54:00 EDT
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/* 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.*?)

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