Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!looking!brad
From: brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: DISCUSSION - modification of charter for news.announce.newgroups
Message-ID: <3994@looking.on.ca>
Date: 13 Aug 89 06:42:26 GMT
References: <3960@ncar.ucar.edu>  <1989Aug13.021012.216@utzoo.uucp>
Reply-To: brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton)
Organization: Looking Glass Software Ltd.
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Class: discussion

In article <1989Aug13.021012.216@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
>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.

I think the reason for this, particularly in the case of ALT, is a desire
to avoid the bureaucracy of the current group creation procedure.  No,
that's not the only reason, but it's a major one.  So I think the other
hierarchies will continue to exist and have a reason for existing in that way.

Actually, there's very little need for hierarchies.  My own news
subscription mechanism for sites involves giving the site a .newsrc instead
of a sys file line, so control can be done at the individual newsgroup level.
The only use left for hierarchies is handling control messages.
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Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software Ltd.  --  Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473