XPost: alt.cats, us.config 
 From: mmontcha@OregonVOS.net 
  
 On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, ~*SooZy*~ wrote: 
 |rec.pets.cats.breeds is a brilliant idea... 
  
 But is it properly named?  Why is the proposed name any better 
 than rec.pets.cats.pedigrees?  Okay, it's arguable whether creating 
 a new newsgroup in the alt.* hierarchy is any easier than creating 
 one in the Big8, but have you considered alt.cats.pedigrees? 
 People stumble on a newsgroup for the very first time usually as 
 a result of the use of a search engine.  If they are looking to 
 obtain a cat, and it is an unusually rare cat, then geographical 
 location might be a fairly important factor to consider.  Perhaps 
 a better place for that kind of a newsgroup would be: 
  
    us.talk.cats+registries 
  
 or something similar to that.  Remember, you are going to be 
 running into a fair number of people who dispute what constitutes 
 any particular breed.  (If you do choose to work with the us.* 
 hierarchy, you will do well to know that the us.* hierarchy tends 
 to prefer 72 column screen widths, however, which is a fairly 
 convenient screen size for displaying tables of information.) 
  
 So long as I brought up the issue of geography, it suddenly 
 occurred to me to look at the de.* hierarchy.  Sure enough, 
 there's a fairly healthy amount of traffic for de.rec.tiere.katzen, 
 but assuming that de.rec.tiere.katzen is the motherlode of cat 
 traffic in the de.* hierarchy, I don't see any splinter groups 
 stemming off of it relating to cats and cat issues.  Maybe it's 
 a whole lot harder to create new newsgroups in the de.* hierarchy? 
 (Yeah, who would have figured.) 
  
 |I am a cat lover be it purebreds or moggies and I hate up setting 
 |the people who will only get a cat from a shelter, they can't see 
 |the attraction of pure breeds which I respect, used to think that 
 |way myself, there are too many un wanted cats out there. On the 
 |other hand why should I feel guilty for buying 2 Ragdolls, I love 
 |them just as much as my little moggie. 
  
 There is nothing wrong with loving cats, but love - in and of itself- 
 is not a logical reason for choosing the name of a new newsgroup. 
  
 --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05 
  * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)