In a message dated 11/23/2005 7:00:20 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
kevin_brown@qwest.net writes:
>So does usenet. That is what each group essentially is.
Acknowledged, but:
-Do most clients present them as a single heirarchical set, or as a list of
individual groups? I think the former, except when you're selecting groups to
add to your read-list. I don't recall when I was using Thunderbird, it
offered you an easy way to skip to subgroups.
-If you want a new subgroup, it needs propogation. Using a tag allows you to
avoid the wait and incomplete propogation period.
-Making extra groups could lead to massive overkill. If we have, for
example, alt.comp. periphs.mainboard.abit, do we *need* 30 model-specific sub-groups?
It might also lead to people missing messages of relevance unless they're
cross-posted to every subgroup.
I'm just trying to figure out how Usenet could be made as appetizing as
web-based forums without breaking it
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