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Re: Newsgroup structure: some tough decisions
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Thu, 15 Mar 2001 20:50:50 GMT
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Frank Filz <ffilz@mindspring.com> writes:
Todd Lehman wrote:
I'm entertaining the idea that ".loc" could be removed from all such
newsgroup names.  In other words, "What If?"

If we did that, we could have _very_ simple newsgroup names like:

   lugnet.au
   lugnet.us
   lugnet.us.ma.bos
   lugnet.uk

Some disadvantages:

- On browsers which present the newsgroup list as a hierarchical tree,
it's nice to just skip the whole .loc hierarchy

- An alpha sort of the newsgroups won't keep the loc groups together

In fact, I've actually been bemoaning that the theme groups aren't under
lugnet.theme.xyz.

I agree.  Keep the .loc prefix.  But it might be a good idea to move
all the regional "org" groups under .loc, so there's only one
geographical hierarchy.  And then the train.org can be org.train - the
org section would only be for worldwide organizations.

--Bill.

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William R Ward        hermit@bayview.com      http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/
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