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Proposal: New Newsgroup Heirarchy

#8
From: Sysop
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1992 20:09
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I would like to propose a new heirarchy:


TOPICAL.*


The purpose would be for topics that are not of a permanent nature.
Of course it's too late now, but some prime examples of a topical group
would be:

topical.election
topical.election.clinton
topical.election.perot
topical.rodney.king
topical.virus.michaelangelo(sp?)
topical.hurrricane.andrew
topical.recession
topical.soviet-union

The groups within this heirarchy would last througout the lifetime of
the topic itself, and then would be cancelled.  Of course, there would
have to be new guidelines for proposing a new topic within this heirarchy,
as a long voting period would defeat the purpose of 'timely' topical
newsgroups.  Perhaps a 

topical.config   

would be a solution to this, with its own guidelines for creating new groups

I would appreciate any comments about this proposal, and would not
appreciate flames. :-)

P.S.  I cross-posted this to alt.config also, as a possible alternative,
to make a sub-heirarchy 'alt.topical.*'   But I think that it would deserve
its own heirarchy.

Thanks for listening

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From: taz@momad.UUCP (Sysop)
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.sysadmin,news.newgroups,alt.config
Subject: Proposal: New Newsgroup Heirarchy
Summary: Propose a TOPICAL.* heirarchy
Keywords: newsgroup heirarchy topical timely new
Message-ID: <LIa7qAJNBh107h@momad.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 92 15:09:47 -0500
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