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smith-una@yale.edu (Una Smith) writes:

> Why not re-organize the bit.listserv domain into topical sub-domains? 
> How about dropping the "listserv" part and having instead
> 	bit.bio.*
> 	bit.edu.*

Since there are already global USENET top-level hierarchies for these
categories, why not take the process one step further, and replace "bit.*"
with the corresponding, existing, USENET non-bit.* name?

> 	bit.med.*

sci.med.*

> 	bit.music.*

rec.music.*

> There are so many bit.listserv groups now that I think this would be
> a very good thing.  It would help people find their way among the now
> 200-odd bit.listserv newsgroups, and would help Usenet administrators
> pick and choose which to carry.

Yes, very much.

The disadvantage to this, of course, is that it would require going through
the standard USENET gauntlet: RFD, flame, CFV, flame, vote, flame, create,
flame.....

In the long run, though, I think it would be very much worth it.  The bit.*
hierarchy is an artifact of the technology, unrelated to the topics, and
things like that are always barriers to the users and to the admins.

Even if the conversion didn't go this far, I do agree that a renaming to
bit.<subject>.<list> would be a definite improvement over the current
setup.

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