Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!looking!brad From: brad@looking.UUCP Newsgroups: news.groups,news.admin Subject: Re: lots of newsgroups Message-ID: <834@looking.UUCP> Date: Mon, 6-Jul-87 23:03:03 EDT Article-I.D.: looking.834 Posted: Mon Jul 6 23:03:03 1987 Date-Received: Wed, 8-Jul-87 06:37:38 EDT References: <266@brandx.rutgers.edu> <8225@utzoo.UUCP> <8261@utzoo.UUCP> Reply-To: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton) Organization: Looking Glass Software Ltd. Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 20 Xref: utgpu news.groups:1088 news.admin:550 In article <8261@utzoo.UUCP> henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) writes: >Actually, there is a more decisive argument: what good are lots of groups? >Is there really a reason why we need comp.lang.c.null-pointers? All it does >is clutter up an already-cluttered name space for a group that is seldom if >ever used. (Incidentally, if you really mean "arbitrary" newsgroup creation, >that way lies chaos -- people who cannot even get subject lines more or less >right will not magically switch to carefully choosing appropriate names for >their 700 brand-new newsgroups.) >-- >Mars must wait -- we have Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology I don't see a problem with comp.lang.c.null-pointers. If there is a hierarchy arranged by keyword creation moderators, there is no trouble in comprehending thousands and thousands of groups. If you are talking about "name-space" in a software sense, then you are agreeing with the poster who complained that old software was being used as an excuse not to create new groups. -- Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software Ltd. - Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473