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From: roberto@hsc.fr.net (Ollivier Robert)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.apps,comp.os.386bsd.development,comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: Cannons Away: Vote NO on newsgroup reformation.
Date: 8 Feb 1995 16:33:39 +0100
Organization: Herve Schauer Consultants, Paris, France
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In article <kaleb.792253018@exalt>, Kaleb KEITHLEY <kaleb@x.org> wrote:
I don't think they belong to comp.unix. (maybe comp.duck but not unix :-)
> Which is it? Too many groups or not enough? You can't keep your cake
> and eat it too. The RFD has too many groups as it is, so the compromise
> is what you see. You *can* always add more groups later.
I wasn't very clear on that, I guess. I think that creating three groups
per system is too much. And that creating 386bsd.misc in place of all the
groups is not enough. I'd prefer a renaming of c.o.386bsd.* into
comp.os.bsd.*, a hierarchy for all *BSD based systems.
Having .help, .development, .questions ... is good but I don't want to
multiply third levels (386bsd.*, freebsd.* and such.).
> I would suggest that you change your votes to yes in the few days
> remaining, and then work to perfect it once the base is in place. If
> you shoot it down then you won't even have that much to work with.
But we have that much to work with. The current naming scheme (.386bsd) is
not good but I think your scheme is worse. You'll have to re-separate the
.misc into subject-related groups later because of the amount of traffic.
And recreate .help, .apps after ? I don't think it is worth the
trouble. Better to stick with comp.os.386bsd.* now and try to rename them
in 6 months into comp.os.bsd.*.
--
Ollivier ROBERT -=- The daemon is FREE! -=- roberto@sidhe.frmug.fr.net
FreeBSD keltia 2.1.0-Development #2: Sat Jan 7 00:55:25 MET 1995