Asri-unix.161 net.news utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!menlo70!sri-unix!sjk Fri Dec 4 07:49:56 1981 heirarchical newsgroups, a warning first, mark's comments: The heirarchy idea sounds wonderful, and deserves further consideration. It should work with existing software, modulo the requirement that newsgroup names are only significant in the first 13 characters in B news (because they are stored as directories, and a . file has the length, taking the extra character). Some thought might be given to changing .'s to /'s for file storage - this would solve the length problem and if the number of newsgroups keeps growing the linearity of UNIX directories might start to become a problem. --- please be careful not to choose longer names until a directory tree is working. if a group, Y, does get created which matches another, X, in the first 13 chars my guess is that Y will show up properly in .newsrc, but directory X will be used and articles in X will be reread when Y is encountered by "readnews". not good! scott ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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.