🚀 go-pugleaf

I wrote:

>> And perhaps the Peace Corps group should be bit.org.society.peace-corps
>> or bit.org.development.peace-corps.

And my newsreader munged the from line, but someone else said:

>Well, try to avoid category syndrome.  "society" or "development" in
>the name don't seem to do much except a half-hearted attempt to make a
>nice taxonomy, which is an effort doomed to failure.

Well, as an evolutionary biologist, I have a deep and abiding
appreciation for taxonomy.  And so does Usenet, or there would
be 3000 groups sorted in plain alphabetical order and no 
structure at all.  The ideal taxonomy may be impossible, but
a workable one is entirely practical and even necessary to the
growth of this Internet culture.

You should get a .signature file, whoever you are.  Or would that
be too much like categorizing yourself?

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      Una Smith      Department of Biology       smith-una@yale.edu
                     Yale University
                     New Haven, CT  06511