Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!looking!brad
From: brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Old Group Deletion Procedures
Message-ID: <25819@looking.on.ca>
Date: 2 Oct 89 06:07:04 GMT
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Reply-To: brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton)
Organization: Looking Glass Software Ltd.
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When I asked if we get more wrong-group mistakes these days than we
did in the old days, I was not asking for anecdotal examples.  There
were plenty of anecdotal examples then, too.  Naming them at either
time reveals nothing.

It seems to me that having a larger namespace can cause problems, but
usually only when a topic has been split into a couple of groups.  And
that means that before the split both subtopics showed up in the same
group.  And that meant that while both were in the "right" group, those
interested in only one of the topics (ie. those who would complain about
misdirected programs) were far worse off.
-- 
Brad Templeton, ClariNet Communications Corp. -- Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473