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- From: chip@tct.com (Chip Salzenberg)
- Subject: Re: *BAD* music group reorg will not be honored
- Message-ID: <2B0673F2.8047@tct.com>
- Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 15:59:46 GMT
- References: <1992Nov10.203619.15086@jato.jpl.nasa.gov>> <Bxnyq5.9Mv@intellection.com> <1992Nov15.114539.10491@jato.jpl.nasa.gov>
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- According to dave@jato.jpl.nasa.gov:
- >emcguire@intellection.com (Ed McGuire) writes:
- >>[I'll] assume that the gateway can easily follow a name change, so I discount
- >>the significance of the name change as it relates to the gateway.
- >
- >Sure, some gateways can follow name changes. What if there are some
- >gateways (which have this ability) that have been set up and left on
- >automatic? What if new maintainers have no idea how to change the name,
- >or have no idea that the gateway even has the ability?
-
- "What if someone's news system runs fine but they've lost the 'news'
- password? If we add a new newsgroup, they'll be left out!"
-
- News software left on automatic is a ticking time bomb anyway. It's
- hard enough allowing for all the systems with administrators; avoiding
- inconvenience to systems without administrators is flatly impossible.
-
- >And again the point I raised above applies...why did it have to be
- >changed in the first place.
-
- I guess the concept of "namespace consistency" means nothing to you.
- But what of your fabled new reader? A reasonable hierarchy benefits
- him as he searches for topics of interest.
- --
- Chip Salzenberg at Teltronics/TCT <chip@tct.com>, <73717.366@compuserve.com>
- just another elitist Usenet administrator
-