From: jy10033@ehsn11.cen.uiuc.edu (Joshua M Yelon) Subject: Re: A proposal for organizing comp.os.linux. [NEW-CHANNELS] Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 12:01:19 GMT
> The number of things you listed are way to long. Nobody
> will remember them all letter-per-letter when writing a
> news post.
I agree. The list is very hard to remember.
Still, I'm not sure it would be a good idea to make the list of topics
short. If the list of topics is short, you lose the ability to pick
and choose which topics you wish to read. I think the "high
resolution" provided by a large number of topics is desirable.
Actually, remembering the long list isn't the problem it appears to be,
because you don't need to remember it. You just have to remember the
channels that describe your favorite topics, the ones about which you
post.
Even so, I still agree with you that it _would_ be nice to have an
easy-to-remember list. I don't have any good ideas right now, so I'll
keep using the names of the channels, but I'm looking forward to a
better suggestion.
- Josh