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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!isi.edu!allard 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 References: <18lkkkINN14d@agate.berkeley.edu> <18iprpINNg6e@agate.berkeley.edu> <1992Sep8.200625.2894@socrates.umd.edu> <veit.716026274@du9ds3> Sender: news@isi.edu Reply-To: allard@isi.edu (Dennis Allard) Distribution: world Organization: USC Information Sciences Institute Lines: 36 Keywords: newsgroup 386bsd news group 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