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Re: Newsgroup structure: some tough decisions
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lugnet.admin.nntp
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Thu, 15 Mar 2001 13:31:42 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.nntp, Todd Lehman writes:
> In lugnet.admin.nntp, Eric Kingsley writes: • <snip>
> I'm entertaining the idea that ".loc" could be removed from all such
> newsgroup names. In other words, "What If?"
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> If we did that, we could have _very_ simple newsgroup names like:
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> lugnet.au
> lugnet.us
> lugnet.us.ma.bos
> lugnet.uk
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> On top of that, doing away with "loc" in the name automagically does away
> with the strong meaning of "local" / "location" / "locality" and leaves the
> namespace more flexible for more organic growth.
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> Axing the .org hierarchy as well (but keeping lugnet.org itself) and moving
> the regional LUG groups withing their respective lugnet.xx country-based
> hierarchy would also help the alleviate confusion we currently have in cases
> like lugnet.org.us vs. lugnet.loc.us.
No knee jerk reactions but I just wanted to clarify something in terms of the
orgs and how they fit into this hierarchy. For example would NELUG fit into
the hierarchy as lugnet.us.nelug or would it be something different?
I have some thoughts I need to work out before I post but I just wanted to
clarify that first.
Eric Kingsley
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 | | Re: Newsgroup structure: some tough decisions
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| (...) Do you mean the kind of cross-org talk that happens in groups like lugnet.org and lugnet.org.xx, or the kind that happens when someone from one org posts in another org's group? I don't see a reason why lugnet.org couldn't and shouldn't still (...) (23 years ago, 15-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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