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From: chuq@Apple.COM (Chuq Von Rospach)
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Subject: Re: A new great renaming? (spring cleaning?)
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Date: 28 Sep 89 04:11:45 GMT
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>Well, I doubt that a Great Renaming would reduce `noise and nastiness'! 
>I imagine it would bring out the flame-throwers in droves.  (I wasn't
>around for the last renaming, so I don't know how smoothly it was pulled
>off.)

The last time we did a grand renaming I brought the subject up and was
bludgeoned bloody. The project was dropped for a couple of years, then Rick
Adams and Spafford resurrected the idea and built a new, improved renaming
structure which was polished over a period of a few months -- and then
implemented slowly and carefully (and *still* painfully). I know I still
have some scars from the first war, and I'll bet Spaf and Rick do, too. It
took a long time to convince people and work out the details and it
sometimes got, um, interesting. But I don't think there's anyone who knows
the old net and the new net who would say the old naming scheme was better.

Now, with a precedent behind us and some careful planning and groundwork, we
can likely do it a lot less painfully. Hopefully.

>>And no, I don't propose putting it to a general vote,

>But do you really think we heve any chance at a consensus by discussion?
>A consensus seems to have been reached about rec.radio.* for the radio
>monitoring group, but is this the exception?

I think so. Think of the discussion as a form of line item veto. We
implement the things we can reach consensus on and continue to discuss the
rest until we either decide it isn't worth it or we come up with something
better.

>Seems reasonable to me, too.  A colossal pain, but reasonable.

So far, the private feedback I've been getting has been favorable. I want to
listen to comments for a while, but I think that when the c.s.m.hardware
vote is over I'll make a call for suggestions on a spring cleaning (yes, I'm
willing to oversee it if it comes to that. We can discuss implementation
later).

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