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From: brad@looking.UUCP
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Subject: Re: lots of newsgroups
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Date: Mon, 6-Jul-87 23:03:03 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul  6 23:03:03 1987
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Reply-To: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton)
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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