At 03:37 09/12/2000 +0100, Ben Bucksch wrote:
>Gervase Markham wrote:
>
>>As most of you will know, there is a plan to reorganise the Mozilla
>>newsgroup hierarchy. The new hierarchy has now been finalised - however,
>>unfortunately, Netscape IS (who are responsible for making the changes)
>>are not going to be able to make them until their major news
>>rearchitecture, which involves new servers and several other changes,
>>happens.
>>This will be at the end of January/early February - that's the current
>>estimate (up from mid-January earlier this week.) This is because (for
>>reasons that have not been explained to me) doing this upgrade requires a
>>freeze on all configuration changes on the server from 12/18/00, and there
>>is not time to reorganise n.p.m.* before that date.
>
>Early Feb is too late, especially since it usually gets later. I am
>annoyed about the Netscape user questions, just like many others probably
>are as well. IMO, Netscape IS should change its schedule based on that
>requirements.
I agree February is too late as that will turn into Easter. Not wishing to
bite the hand that feeds it too much, but is it a Good Thing to be tied to
Netscape IS in this way still? Are there no open alternatives?
Simon
