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 References: <3137@ur-cc.UUCP> <1989Sep26.212755.8458@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov> <4492@ncar.ucar.edu> <22888@looking.on.ca> <1989Oct1.233028.7753@sq.sq.com> Reply-To: brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton) Organization: Looking Glass Software Ltd. Lines: 13 Class: discussion 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