Why not rename comp.sources.* to comp.source.code.*

[Kent Landfield]

In article <1989Nov6.200704.25810 at sq.sq.com> lee at sq.com (Liam R. E. Quin) writes:
>In article <2125 at prune.bbn.com> rsalz at bbn.com (Rich Salz) writes:
>>Jeff Medcalf suggests
>>>While we're at it, what about
>>>
>>>comp.source.code.misc
>>>comp.source.code.sun
>>etc...
>>
>>The answer is that those groups are moderated, so when people post mistaken
>>messages to those groups, only the moderator has to deal with it.
>
>Except that it would make a lot more sense if all of the newsgroups
>had consistent names.

The newsgroups *do* have consistent names. I see nothing gained by making
the comp.sources.* group names match the "suggested" alt.sources group 
renaming. 

>At least it would then be possible to intuit the name of the comp.* groups
>from the alt.source-code groups, and versa vice [:-)].

I have no problem now. Why do you ?? If we really wanted to make it clear
then why not change the names to ...

comp.source.code.for.sys5.only
comp.source.code.for.BSD4.3.only
comp.source.code.for.sun.workstations.only
comp.source.code.for.att.workstations.only
comp.source.code.for.hp.workstations.only
comp.source.code.for.dec.workstations.only
comp.source.code.for.all.other.workstations
comp.source.code.for.people.who.only.do.pascal.on.a.pdp-11
comp.source.code.anything.goes

Why don't we try it in the alt groups first and see if the experiment
works... :-) :-)

>This is especially useful for people who get a limited subset of the
>news (for cost of disk-space reasons).

I really do not see where changing the name makes any difference at all
for people who get a "limited subset"... Remember, the topic is renaming
the comp.sources groups which are moderated.

>On the other hand, that would force all of the archivers to change.

And to what benifit ?? The discussion of renaming alt sources groups
should focus on alt and not try to break something that is not broken.
It is interesting that a discussion on renaming the comp.sources groups
did not appear in comp.sources.d.

			-Kent+
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