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At 09:35 AM 4/14/99 +0000, Todd Lehman wrote:
8< [...] The mother of all snippage.
> Here is, all things considered, maybe what'll work best:
>
> lugnet.cad CAD
> lugnet.cad.dat.ideas CAD / DAT Files / Ideas
> lugnet.cad.dat.models CAD / DAT Files / Models
> lugnet.cad.dat.parts CAD / DAT Files / Parts
> lugnet.cad.dat.parts.prim CAD / DAT Files / Parts / Primitives
> lugnet.cad.dat.scenes CAD / DAT Files / Scenes
> lugnet.cad.dev CAD / Development
> lugnet.cad.dev.org CAD / Development / ldraw.org
> n/a CAD / LDraw
> n/a CAD / LDraw / Parts
> n/a CAD / LDraw / Tools
> n/a CAD / Ray-Tracing
>
> The last four are newsgroupless categories purely for organizing links on
> the website. I'm sure at some point there would also be virtual categories
> for other software packages as they gain popularity and users and have more
> things to link to like galleries and stuff like that.
>
> Anyway, in this final scenario, .cad.dev.org is the new group, tucked away
> under the protection of .cad.dev. And this also makes semantic sense as the
> new group is a spinoff of .cad.dev and will have many of the same
> participants, although a smaller set. In this scenario, .cad.dev would
> continue to be for development of CAD stuff (primarily LDraw) and
> .cad.dev.org would be for development of ldraw.org specific stuff (primarily
> the website).
>
> Whew. OK. Well, I don't love this last scenario to death or anything but
> it seems practical. Comments/opinions/criticisms?
I like this idea for the heirarchy. However, my choice for group name is
*.org.ldraw
Whether just cad. or cad.dev. goes before it. But it is good tucked away
under .dev.
And as Terry said, you *are* so thorough its scary... :D
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| (...) Arg. Good point. (...) Why the .org. then? Why not lugnet.trains.pnltc and lugnet.trains.gmltc ? The name is shorter and easier to remember. They are separated from the lugnet.trains group, yet they're still associated with it. (...) Yes, see (...) (26 years ago, 14-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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