| |
In lugnet.cad.dev, lehman@javanet.com (Todd Lehman) writes:
> In lugnet.cad.dev, tcourtney@avenew.com (Tim Courtney) writes:
> > > [...] If you were visiting the web page on LUGNET for the San
> > > Francisco bay area,
> > >
> > > http://www.lugnet.com/loc/us/ca/sf/
> > >
> > > and you did a localized search, it wouldn't include lugnet.org.baylug
> > > in the search because it's outside of the lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf hierarchy.
> >
> > But couldn't you add some link between the groups in your newsgroup
> > software so that they are associated?
>
> Fuzzy category cross-referencing would definitely help.
What would be problematic, though, is alphabetization issues in newsreaders.
Some newsreaders, like trn and Microplanet Gravity, allow you to reorder
your newsgroup subscriptions to group things better the way you want to read
them. But the more popular newsreaders like Forte Free Agent and Netscape
Messenger don't allow it. So the closer like-minded groups can be to one
another in the physical hierarchy, the less overall mess it causes, even
with fuzzy cross-referencing at the server side during searches and
browsing. Finally, even with a .domains layer (or whatever name it had),
the flat lists below it -could- grow pretty long over time, which is a
bummer when alphabetized if things like a .pnltc group were far away from a
.gmltc group.
--Todd
[followups set to lugnet.admin.general]
|
|
Message is in Reply To:
 | | Re: newsgroup name for ldraw.org
|
| (...) Fuzzy category cross-referencing would definitely help. (...) Oh. I meant by all of that counter-example-ing that going down that path crumbles because of the immediately arising need for an extra layer, i.e. .domains or equivalent. Because of (...) (25 years ago, 14-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.admin.general)
|
52 Messages in This Thread:
 
- Entire Thread on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
|
|
|
|
