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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>
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Reply-To: jerry@olivey.UUCP (Jerry Aguirre)
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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"