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From: apratt@iuvax.UUCP
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Subject: Re: A Thought on Newsgroup Structure (lo - (nf)
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Date: Wed, 1-Feb-84 04:16:21 EST
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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.

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