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In article <1992Nov13.074923.8783@dsd.es.com> rthomson@dsd.es.com
(Rich Thomson) writes:

>In article <4424@vidiot.UUCP>
>	brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot) writes:

>>For starters, I'd stick with the following groups:
>>
>>	comp.sources.postscript
>
>This sounds fine.
>
>>	comp.sources.postscript.d
>
>I'm really confused why this group is needed.  Why can't the
>discussion take place in this newsgroup?  Whenever talking about
>proposing groups on usenet, always ask youself this question:
>
>    Will an existing group serve the need?
>
>For me, the need for a place to discuss postscript programming and
>postscript programming techniques is served by comp.lang.postscript.

There are two reasons why the suggested names are a good idea.
Firstly, they follow existing net conventions of a sources or binaries
group paired with another group with the ".d" appended - meaning the
discussion group. Conforming to the defacto naming standard seems a
good thing in itself - people know what to expect of the group simply
by looking at its name.

Secondly, it ensures that discussion - which can be quite lengthy and
can diverge wildly from the original topic before the thread dies - is
in a separate group. This facilitates automatic archiving of the
sources group., without it being padded out by non-source items. This
is freindly to the disk space of the site(s) archiving it, and
freindly to the patience of people lookin back at the archives for
that little gem of a routine that was posted 5 years ago...

>The need for a group explicitly for posting postscript source isn't
>directly served by c.l.p it seems.  This is even more the case when
>you consider the fact that you probably would like to have the sources
>group moderated.

Moderated. Make that three reasons. A moderated sources group would be
a good idea IMHO, wheras I feel the discussion group would be better
unmoderated.

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Chris Lilley
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