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Re: new newsgroup lugnet.inst
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lugnet.admin.nntp
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Tue, 30 Jul 2002 17:55:25 GMT
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"Todd Lehman" <todd@lugnet.com> writes:
> A new newsgroup/list lugnet.inst has been created for the focused discussion
> of building instructions (with a big emphasis on computer-generated building
> instructions).
Ugh, I really don't think this is a very intuitive name. Why not
lugnet.instructions? I doubt anybody is using a newsreader that's so
old you have to actually type the names of the newsgroups. There are
*soo* many words that either start with or can reasonably be
abbreviated "inst"...
I wish that we could have some discussion before new groups are
created.
--Bill.
P.S.: Todd, I'm glad to see you're back in LUGNET. Your absense has
been palpable.
--
William R Ward bill@wards.net http://www.wards.net/~bill/
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| (...) Good question. Ok, why lugnet.build.arch on LUGNET? Why not lugnet.building.architecture? Why comp.arch.storage on USENET? Why not computers.architecture.storage? Well, in choosing newsgroup names, there's a long tradition (going back 20+ (...) (22 years ago, 30-Jul-02, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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