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- From: kpc@pluto.arc.nasa.gov (k p c)
- Subject: splitting newsgroups (virtual newsgroups)
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- Organization: NASA Ames Research Center AI Research and Aero Branches;
- Sterling.
- Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 02:07:15 GMT
-
- i wrote the following as a followup in news.groups but it might be
- relevant here.
-
- i think "the endless splintering of newsgroups" is a GOOD thing. the
- problem is in news readers. you should be able to combine small
- newsgroups into custom-made virtual groups.
-
- that way people who don't have time for the other splinters can read
- the splinters they want to, and you, who want "cross-polination
- (sic)", can have that too. imho everybody pretty much wins since
- nobody has to comply with the taxonomy/classification/ontology of
- others.
-
- note that this allows the newsgroup equivalent of multiple inheritance
- (directed acyclic graph instead of tree), and reduces arguments about
- what hierarchy or subhierarchy a proposed newsgroup should go in.
-
- the only reader that does anything close to this that i know of is nn.
- i have been urging the gnus community to do it for gnus (a gnu emacs
- newsreader written in lisp), but so far nobody's bitten yet (except
- for one partial attempt called gnus-topic).
-
- but other news readers will get it; it'll happen. in the meantime, i
- think we should split away without feeling guilty, even though it's a
- pain sometimes. change is in the nature of things; it's good for us
- to accept that.
-
- comments?
- --
- i'm open to comparing research career notes with other young cogsci people.
-