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Re: Mailing list gateways
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lugnet.admin.general
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Mon, 25 Jan 1999 19:51:00 GMT
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Todd Lehman (lehman@javanet.com) wrote:
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> Is there a reason that there has to be a lugnet.cad.users sub-group and that
> lugnet.cad has to go away? In other words, why wouldn't
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> lugnet.cad
> lugnet.cad.dat
> lugnet.cad.developers
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> work just as well as (if not better than)
It might. My main problem is that I think you aren't supposed to have
groups placed in other groups, only in "categories".
> All developers are users, after all, and it seems odd to me to discuss CAD
> models in a group named lugnet.cad.users instead of simply lugnet.cad.
Yes.
> Maybe lugnet.cad.misc or lugnet.cad.general captures the
> essense of the .users ng more accurately? Do those waste
> the opportunity-for-effect that .users has when juxtaposed
> with .developers? If so, what happens when/if there is
> someday a group or two lexicographically separating
> .developers and .users? Is .dat for developers or for
> users? Isn't the whole lugnet.cad* tree for users? With
> the .developers ng being for a special kind of user -- the
> developer/user?
lugnet.cad.general follows the style from other Lugnet groups. If it's
too much work to move the articles from lugnet.cad to a new group, we
can keep lugnet.cad it as it is now, and just add lugnet.cad.developers.
Play well,
Jacob
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| (...) I've heard that too. :) I don't think it's a Good-Thing/Bad-Thing thing. Note that sub-groups of real groups are a way of life in the lugnet.loc.* hierarchies -- and it's an important property of their usage. But sub-groups of real groups also (...) (28 years ago, 25-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) Assuming this happens, the safest way is probably to re-inject all of the articles into the new ng, rather than actually renaming it. Then after that, the old group can be blown away. The process of re-injecting, however, is tricky with (...) (28 years ago, 25-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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