🚀 go-pugleaf

i wrote the following as a followup in news.groups but it might be
relevant here.

i think "the endless splintering of newsgroups" is a GOOD thing.  the
problem is in news readers.  you should be able to combine small
newsgroups into custom-made virtual groups.

that way people who don't have time for the other splinters can read
the splinters they want to, and you, who want "cross-polination
(sic)", can have that too.  imho everybody pretty much wins since
nobody has to comply with the taxonomy/classification/ontology of
others.

note that this allows the newsgroup equivalent of multiple inheritance
(directed acyclic graph instead of tree), and reduces arguments about
what hierarchy or subhierarchy a proposed newsgroup should go in.

the only reader that does anything close to this that i know of is nn.
i have been urging the gnus community to do it for gnus (a gnu emacs
newsreader written in lisp), but so far nobody's bitten yet (except
for one partial attempt called gnus-topic).

but other news readers will get it; it'll happen.  in the meantime, i
think we should split away without feeling guilty, even though it's a
pain sometimes.  change is in the nature of things; it's good for us
to accept that.

comments?
-- 
i'm open to comparing research career notes with other young cogsci people.