US-Southeast, Proposal for Southeastern Jobs Newsgroups Feedback
Ray Osborne
Thanks to all who gave feedback to our idea of an
Southern Hierachy of newsgroups. Not only getting
feedback from you users but I have also talked to
some of the newsgroup system adminstrators at two
major Southern Universities, namely Emory and Duke
University. In addition have talked to major
providers of jobs like Career Magazine. (see footnote)
I am trying to feedback from all groups so this
will be a success. Here is some feedback on my original
post.
II think we need to start a regional hierarchy called SE-US.
:Starting with two newsgroups call SE-US.TECH.JOBS and
:SE-US.NON-TECH.JOBS SE-US is for South Eastern USA. Or it could
:be US-SE.TECHNICAL.JOBS and US-SE.NON TECHNICAL.JOBS if we
:have the okay from the US Jobs Hierachy.
BW>Unnecessary hierarchy -- us.southeast.* would be better -- other
regions
>have similar needs, and this would avoid clutter. The
>us.* hierarchy already exists.
Good point, we need to propose this to US.CONFIG
BW>My Mindspring feed lists 20,490 groups, and still growing rapidly;
The
>noise problem is getting almost as severe in the group list as it is in
>the groups themselves. A few years ago, the wild-eyed prediction was that
>everyone on the 'net would have his own home page. Today, it looks like
>everyone will have his own alt.fan group.
>:1) There are many states in the south like SC,AL,Tenn, Kentucy,MS,
:Ark. that do not have their own regional jobs newsgroup this
newsgroup
:would give them representation for their jobs.
>Actually, there's a massive South Carolina hierarchy under us.sc.*, an
>Alabama hierarchy under alabama.*, Tennessee under tn.*, and a ky.*
>hierarchy that may or may not be Kentucky (Mindspring only lists
>ky.weather and ky.motorcycles). Add that to atl.* and ga.*, and fl.*, and
>there's a serious mess.
I wonder if anybody but myself is surprised in learning
about these newsgroups. I thought I had the most up to
date list. Couldn't find SC nor Alabama's extension.
I know there is a HSV.JOBS but how many people know
that means Huntsville.
>This points out the problem of confusing and inconsistent newsgroup
>creation -- as much of a pain in the butt as it is, any creation of
>something as big as a US regional hierarchy should
>really be hashed out in
>news.config and us.config.
>news.config and us.config.
Another good point, I don't want to overwhelm this
newsgroup but to
encourage people to get involved. After this message
we can discuss this in those places. Feedback is
welcome.
Footnote: Career Magazine has a search engine at
their site which will enable you to do a keyword
search in misc.jobs.offered. They are linked at
my site at:
Todd Mullins
Ray Osborne (RAY...@worldnet.att.net) wrote:
: >Actually, there's a massive South Carolina hierarchy under us.sc.*, an
: >Alabama hierarchy under alabama.*, Tennessee under tn.*, and a ky.*
: >hierarchy that may or may not be Kentucky (Mindspring only lists
: >ky.weather and ky.motorcycles). Add that to atl.* and ga.*, and fl.*, and
: >there's a serious mess.
: I wonder if anybody but myself is surprised in learning
: about these newsgroups. I thought I had the most up to
: date list. Couldn't find SC nor Alabama's extension.
: I know there is a HSV.JOBS but how many people know
: that means Huntsville.
There is also a fledgling Mississippi heirarchy, ms.*, which is not
(yet) propagated to out-of-state machines. Currently only ms.test and
ms.general.
--
Todd Mullins
Todd.M...@nrlssc.navy.mil On the lovely Mississippi (USA) Coast
"I could go at any time..."