Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!apple!oliveb!olivey!jerry From: jerry@olivey.olivetti.com (Jerry Aguirre) Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: Re: Old Group Deletion Procedures Summary: The "news.*" hiearchy should be renamed Keywords: delete obsolete newsgroups Message-ID: <48609@oliveb.olivetti.com> Date: 29 Sep 89 03:24:01 GMT References: <3137@ur-cc.UUCP> <1989Sep26.212755.8458@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov> <4492@ncar.ucar.edu> <22888@looking.on.ca> Sender: news@oliveb.olivetti.com Reply-To: jerry@olivey.UUCP (Jerry Aguirre) Organization: Olivetti ATC; Cupertino, Ca Lines: 20 In article <22888@looking.on.ca> brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton) writes: > 5) comp + Computation-related newsgroups. > 6) misc + Miscellaneous newsgroups, not fitting other categories. > 7) news + Newsgroups about News. Exactly, so we get posting in news.misc about earthquakes, fires, and shootings. All "news" items that could appear in any good "news"paper or television "news" show. This is one place where the great renaming blew it. To paraphrase: "When I use a word it means exactly what other people think it means". They want to post about current events and so "news.*" looks like the place. I would rather see it renamed "usenet" or even "this_board". Most of the masses seem to be familiar with "bulletin board" but news means something different EVERYWHERE else except here. Jerry Aguirre "Earth destroyed in cosmic cataclysm, details at 11"