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utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!duke!chico!harpo!cbosg!cbosgd!mark
Tue Jan 12 13:29:56 1982
Re: News Group Names: Confounding distribution with content
Paul makes a valid point, but I will play devils advocate and take the
other side.

Firstly, if such a change were to be made, there would be an INCREDIBLE
upward compatibility problem.  Since you can't change the whole net at
once, you would have to have gateways using the old scheme on old systems.

Second, while I can see a relation between btl.bugs and net.bugs, it is
also fairly clear that btl.general and net.general are NOT the same
newsgroup, and are both quite different from general.  If a user could
only subscribe to "general" and get all or nothing from all.general,
he would bitch and moan a lot.

Third, in scanning my active file, I don't see any duplications of suffixes
except for general and test.  Is there any indication that there is really
going to be an explosion?  I don't foresee one.

       Mark Horton

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