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- From: jy10033@ehsn11.cen.uiuc.edu (Joshua M Yelon)
- Subject: Re: A proposal for organizing comp.os.linux. [NEW-CHANNELS]
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 12:01:19 GMT
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- > The number of things you listed are way to long. Nobody
- > will remember them all letter-per-letter when writing a
- > news post.
-
- I agree. The list is very hard to remember.
-
- Still, I'm not sure it would be a good idea to make the list of topics
- short. If the list of topics is short, you lose the ability to pick
- and choose which topics you wish to read. I think the "high
- resolution" provided by a large number of topics is desirable.
-
- Actually, remembering the long list isn't the problem it appears to be,
- because you don't need to remember it. You just have to remember the
- channels that describe your favorite topics, the ones about which you
- post.
-
- Even so, I still agree with you that it _would_ be nice to have an
- easy-to-remember list. I don't have any good ideas right now, so I'll
- keep using the names of the channels, but I'm looking forward to a
- better suggestion.
-
- - Josh
-