Re: comp.databases.postgresql.* groups and RFD

Woodchuck Bill <bwr607(at)hotmail(dot)com> wrote in
news:Xns95AD8C1262850bswr607h4(at)130(dot)133(dot)1(dot)4:

> "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk(at)chinet(dot)chinet(dot)com> wrote in
> news:pIOdndYMRqGJ7DrcRVn- 2w(at)newedgenetworks(dot)com:
>
>> Are these meant to be worldwide Usenet groups
>> or newsgroups local to your server?
>
> Supernews is already carrying all 29 of the new groups in the pgsql.*
> hierarchy. That alone makes them "worldwide groups", as SN is a major
> peer to other severs.
>

I just realized what a bad name pgsql.* is for a hierarchy. If someone
wants to look for a newgroup for PostgreSQL, he will type that word/string
into his newsreader and it will not bring up any of these newsgroups. I
just tried it on a server that carries the new groups, and the only
newsgroup that comes up when I search for "PostgreSQL" is
alt.comp.databases.postgresql. The name of the hierarchy should have been
postgresql.* instead. Even with the rogue comp.* groups, the word
PostgreSQL appeared in each of the bogus group names.

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Bill