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Article #93[PROPOSAL] reorganization of ba.internet into ba.technology.* subhierarchy
From: Sam Habash
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 04:18
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 04:18
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This is a formal proposal marked to the attention of those that maintain the ba.* hierarchy. It seems that many of the recent discussions that have appeared in ba.internet hae been mostly off-charter, at least with respect to the original newgroup. Rather than covering Internet-specific topics pertaining to the Bay Area, we have seen discussions cover the gamut between spam abatement, wireless phone connectivity, and whether Microsoft was somewhat evil or totally evil. Only occasionally have these topics veered towards Bay Area specific examples. One worthy counter argument made in the earlier round of discussion was that the ba.* hierarchy covers a broad range of subjects that the SF Bay Area residents who frequent these groups can participate in, but in my mind there is really no good argument for excluding non-residents from participating. Thus, I feel that ba.internet should be discontinued, and the subject matter spun off into a new "ba.technology" subhierarchy: ba.technology.misc Discussions about Bay Area technology-related issues. ba.technology.internet Discussions about Bay Area Internet connectivity. ba.technology.wireless Discussions about wireless connectivty around the Bay Area. Sam -- (There Is NO Cabal, folks!)
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: ffafb,99f5739cc0053bcb,start X-Google-Attributes: gidffafb,public X-Google-Thread: fa874,99f5739cc0053bcb,start X-Google-Attributes: gidfa874,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-06-23 21:18:19 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!sn-xit-03!sn-xit-06!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail From: Sam Habash <usenet@bestII.com> Newsgroups: ba.config,ba.internet Subject: [PROPOSAL] reorganization of ba.internet into ba.technology.* subhierarchy Followup-To: ba.config Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 04:18:18 -0000 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Message-ID: <slrnbffk8a.12p9.the@wopr.bestII.com> Keywords: proposal ba.config Summary: ba.internet is a dried-up watering hole with the same old bored hippos User-Agent: slrn/0.9.7.4 (FreeBSD) X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Lines: 26