Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site iuvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!inuxc!iuvax!saj From: saj@iuvax.UUCP Newsgroups: net.news Subject: Re: A Thought on Newsgroup Structure (lo - (nf) Message-ID: <138@iuvax.UUCP> Date: Wed, 15-Feb-84 15:23:21 EST Article-I.D.: iuvax.138 Posted: Wed Feb 15 15:23:21 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 17-Feb-84 00:00:04 EST Sender: saj@iuvax.UUCP Organization: Indiana U, Bloomington Lines: 24 #R:druxt:-88400:iuvax:2800002:000:1132 iuvax!apratt Jan 31 16:59:00 1984 I guess I am not familiar enough with the differences between news and notes. I wrote based on the "notes" concept (a base note and responses to it, tied together in two dimensions) because that's really all I've ever dealt with. I've used the PLATO notesfile system, and UNIX notes, and yet another notes system, and I guess that's all I really know. The fact that the original poster used "followup" instead of "response" didn't faze me; it did, however, leave a wrong impression. In any case, the "notes" driver still doesn't do the job. When there is a protracted discussion on the net, say about waterbeds in net.misc, it seems logical that there might be a temporary subgroup created to deal with the sudden volume on a specific topic. If you want to read it, fine, but it is much easier to skip over it if you aren't interested. Can somebody describe for me the bugs in the "notes" software? A site here at IU (isrnix) recently gave notes up in favor of news -- to me, that seems like giving a word processor up in favor of a hammer, chisel, and stone slab. ---- -- Allan Pratt ...decvax!ihnp4!inuxc!iuvax!apratt