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	Are there plans to make the wais-sources a heirarchy?

One of the first things I notice when I start up xwais is that there
are just too many sources to just 'browse' through.  If I'm interested
in just a certain type of source, I have to wade through (now) 362
sources to find what I want.  If WAIS plans to expand, then there clearly
has to be a way to break down this mass into manageable chunks.
	Here's my idea of how the the wais-sources jumble could 
be organized:

wais-sources/	books/		(Aesop-Fables, bible, O'Reilly etc)
		documents/	(journals, reports, files)
				(could be split again?)
		usenet/		(alt.*, comp.*, and FAQ's etc)
				(perhaps split again by usenet heirarchy?)
		internet/	(ITEF, internet drafts/rfc's, nsfnet, uunet)
		ftp/		(archie, archives, ftpable-readmes)
		software/	(sas-archive, spss-archive)
		library/	(library sources)
		rec/		(movie, music, cooking, etc)
		wais/		(WAIS itself, catalog of sources)
		misc/		(catch-all)

Looking through this list and the soruces, there's still a good number
that don't fit in a (non-misc) category above.  Any other good ideas for
topics?

My rationale is to provide the causal browser with a mechanism to immediately
exclude certain tyes of sources, rather than necessarily include only the
sources he/she wants.  It also provides a little more information about each
source, by just looking at the structure.  You may not know what "rkba.src"
is about, but "documents/rkba.src" gives you a little more info.

--Dave
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