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- From: rhorner@ugly.UVic.CA (Roger Horner)
- Subject: Re: MISC: Subgroups
- Message-ID: <1992Dec12.225644.12059@sol.UVic.CA>
- Sender: news@sol.UVic.CA
- Nntp-Posting-Host: ugl-gw.uvic.ca
- Organization: University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
- References: <Qf_EWFC00WCX071Op5@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Date: Sat, 12 Dec 92 22:56:44 GMT
- Lines: 25
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- In article <Qf_EWFC00WCX071Op5@andrew.cmu.edu> sward+@CMU.EDU (David Reeve Sward) writes:
- >Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.ibm.pc.games: 11-Dec-92 MISC: Subgroups
- >by Ron Dippold@cancun.qualc
- >> .info
- >>
- >> This is a moderated group for the posting of any information regarding
- >> PC Games. It includes company press releases, group FAQs, game
- >> release announcements, Game Bytes announcements, etc. The main
- >> purpose is to call attention to important information without too much
- >> interfering noise. All discussion of posted items will be shunted to
- >> the .misc group. This will be low traffic, but the high signal to
- >> noise should make it worthwhile.
- >
- >I strongly disagree with calling the announcements group '.info'.
- >First, tradition (yes, I know) dictates that if a hierarchy has one
- >moderated group and the rest are for discussion, it is called
- >'.announce'. Second, '.info' implies that this is the group for general
- >informational articles, not just announcements. I guess my disagreement
- >with naming it '.info' could almost be considered religious, but that's
- >how I feel.
-
- Is rec.arts.startrek.info an exception? It is a moderated group, and there
- isn't a rec.arts.startrek.announce.
-
- Roger
-