Newsgroups: news.admin
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: DISCUSSION - modification of charter for news.announce.newgroups
Message-ID: <1989Aug13.021012.216@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <3960@ncar.ucar.edu> 
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 89 02:10:12 GMT

In article  lear@NET.BIO.NET (Eliot Lear) writes:
>If news.announce.newgroups is to be the place for the announcment of
>properly created groups, then it should be used for ALL hierarchies...

Or such hierarchies should be merged into the main ones.  It really is
a pain that every little topic thinks it deserves a hierarchy of its own.
Most of them carry so little traffic and are so uncontroversial that they
could easily be absorbed into the main ones.  That is, the one major
virtue of being separate -- slightly easier administration of differing
distribution paths -- is usually of no real importance.

Actually, I do agree with Eliot, because one or two of the other hierarchies
do have real reasons to exist, and terse announcements of changes to them
would improve n.a.n.'s usefulness at little cost.  But the problem could
be greatly reduced by just reducing the number of silly superfluous
hierarchies.
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