🚀 go-pugleaf

Someone has suggested the name dc.alexandria. I understand the logic. Makes 
lots of sense. We could go this way if need be.

But I myself prefer simply alexandria.news. Reasons:

1. The newsgroup should be as local as possible. I'd like the proper 
precedent sent here. If, say, folks in Bethesda or Oxon Hill want their own 
newsgroup, well, they could do the same. Somehow "alexandria.news" sounds 
like a friendly local newspaper (though of course a newsgroup is no 
newspaper substitute!). Ditto for bethesda.news and so on.

2. Distribition would be local.

3. All area newsgroups could carry regular pointers to other newsgroups, 
reducing the need for a hierarchy. As it turns out, people want pointers 
anyway to local groups dealing with their hobbies and other interests. In 
fact, Pete Cottrell is already providing such a service with his 
useful Periodic Posting of DC Hierarchy News Traffic.

A compromise could be something like alexandria.va.news, va.alexandria, or 
alexandria.va. That would at least preserve the Va. identity. 

But my own choice remains alexandria.news.

Feedback welcome.

TIA.

David Rothman | rothman@clark.net