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Awatmath.2233
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utzoo!decvax!watmath!bstempleton
Thu Apr 22 00:14:49 1982
Proliferation of newsgroups
Perhaps one way to help fight the proliferation of short-lived newsgroups
and arguments about group names is the following scheme:
Pick an innocuous delimeter character like _ to suplement dot (.)
If there is an existing group and you wish to classify your message
further, stick a suffix on the end of the group with this delimeter.
The data after the delimeter should be ignored by all code in news except
that code of explicit subscription.  It should not appear in active or
in directory names.  Let's say I want to talk about scare monster scrolls
in rogue.  I submit to net.games.rogue_scare
The message gets posted by all code to 'net.games.rogue'  anybody who
reads net.games.rogue reads the message.  Anybody who explicitly subscribes
to net.games.rogue_scare will get it, and anybody who explicitly unsubscribes
to it with !net.games.rogue_scare will not get it.
With this principle, net.followup should go away.  All followups to important
groups get posted to group_followup, unless the article being followed up
already has a _suffix on it.
As time passes, it is easy to change the _ to a . if the group becomes
important enough to get its own directory and entry in the ngfile etc.
What do you think?
		Brad Templeton
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