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- From: allard@isi.edu (Dennis Allard)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Re: 386bsd -- The New Newsgroup
- Message-ID: <22364@venera.isi.edu>
- Date: 11 Sep 92 00:29:44 GMT
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- wjolitz@soda.berkeley.edu (really Lynne Jolitz) writes:
- > The subgroups kernel, windows, sharedlib (for shared libraries, Holger) and
- > net (for networking) are actually research/development topics, and have
- > been of intense interest to those who wish to participate in developing
- > these areas further.
-
- The attempt I am seeing here to a priori categorize content is doomed
- to fail. The reason threads exist is because dynamically created
- discussions come and go and have a natural lifetime (and death). The
- cross indexing problem across the proposed subgroups will be tedious.
- Maybe the 'keyword' field is where these categories should be
- mentionned. Note how 'well' that has worked in the past :). The
- current volume of traffic does not justify splitting things only based
- on volume, and it is a pipe dream to assume that the proposed
- subgroups are either complete or consistent.
-
- Note, USENET is not the place for project management. Private email
- and mailing lists are. General discussions of 386bsd shared
- libraries, gigabyte networking, and the other open ended set of 386bsd
- related topics which will arise belong in as few newsgroups as
- possible. In the case of gigabyte networks, that place need not have
- anything to do with 386bsd, by the way, except in so far as it deals
- with 386bsd implementation issues.
-
- > It depends. If you find a bug but not the solution, you post to "bugs".
- > If you find the fix, you post to "ann".
-
- Too complicated. People interested in bugs are also interested in
- fixes. "bug xyz" and "Re: bug xyz" appearing close to each other in
- a threaded newsreader is preferable.
-
- Occam's razor indeed should be carefully applied here.
-
- sincerely,
- Dennis G. Allard
- allard@isi.edu
-