Ahouxm.174 net.news.groups utzoo!decvax!harpo!floyd!vax135!houxi!houxm!mel Thu Apr 15 16:30:27 1982 Re: new groups I agree with Greg Guthrie. Usenet should have a much more flexible method to handle news groups. New ones should be easy to start, old ones should die gracefully, mistypes should be tolerated, and it should be a whole lot easier to turn off groups I don't want to be bothered with, and also easy to know all about the active groups. How about a re-design with a real tree structure of group names that maps into a real tree structure of (the same) file names. Then pre-define some of the files(groups) for specific purposes as aid to the users (README's, keywords, statement of purpose, etc.). Readnews and inews could then do appropriate greps to present the user with choices, or at least some info. Mel Haas, houxm!mel ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.