Dynamical Subgroups of Newsgroups

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3 total messages Started by Hadmut Danisch Tue, 18 Aug 1992 12:05

#15

Author: Hadmut Danisch
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 12:05

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Hi,

what about this modification of News:

In most newsgroups there are discussions over special
subjects, e.g. abortion, smoking, or something
like "How to take pictures of little blue flowers" in rec.photo.

These discussions normally die after some days/weeks and not
everybody is interested in reading these discussions.

In these cases we could add an additional line to the message, 
something like 

Subgroup: flowers

The Newsreader would generate a subgroup, which would have
a name like rec.photo.flowers. This new subgroup could appear
as a normal Newsgroup or as a folder in rec.photo.
When the last message in this subgroup has expired and the
folder gets empty, it is automatically destroyed.


This would make finding of messages for a special subject much
more easier and it would reduce the number of newsgroups.



Hadmut Danisch  (danisch@ira.uka.de)

Re: Dynamical Subgroups of Newsgroups

#16

Author: J Lee Jaap
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 17:24

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In article <1992Aug18.120543.298@ira.uka.de> danisch@ira.uka.de (Hadmut Danisch ) writes:

   Hi,

   what about this modification of News:

   In most newsgroups there are discussions over special
   subjects, e.g. abortion, smoking, or something
   like "How to take pictures of little blue flowers" in rec.photo.

   These discussions normally die after some days/weeks and not
   everybody is interested in reading these discussions.

   In these cases we could add an additional line to the message, 
   something like 

   Subgroup: flowers

Reasonably chosen Subject: headers combined with threading newsreaders
provide this utility now (not the same implementation, of course).
--
J Lee Jaap <jaapjl@tab00.larc.nasa.gov> +1 804/864-2148
employed by, not speaking for, AS&M Inc, at NASA LaRC, Hampton VA 23681

Re: Dynamical Subgroups of Newsgroups

#20

Author: Marc Thibault
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 10:32

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In article <1992Aug18.120543.298@ira.uka.de> 
(Hadmut Danisch ) writes: 
  ...
> In these cases we could add an additional line to the message, 
> something like 
> 
> Subgroup: flowers

    Isn't that what the Subject: line is for?

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 marc@tanda.isis.org  |  Oxford Mills, Ontario       |  Global or otherwise,
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