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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rss readers category
Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2004 18:08:53
Message-Id: 20040829190541.494f8614@snowdrop.home
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] rss readers category by foser
1 On Sun, 29 Aug 2004 19:27:39 +0200 foser <foser@g.o> wrote:
2 | On Sun, 2004-08-29 at 17:55 +0200, Carsten Lohrke wrote:
3 | > I don't agree. E.g. Opera does nntp, too, but that's no reason to
4 | > put all dedicated news applications into net-www. Following your
5 | > argument, we could drop the net-news category at all.
6 |
7 | These are not news (nntp) applications as you seem to think.
8
9 Is *everything* in net-news/ an nntp application? If so, wouldn't
10 net-nntp be a better name? It seems that some net- categories are
11 governed by protocol and some by purpose...
12
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