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Group hierarchies on USENET were from least to most specific, for example sci.math.num-analysis.
by spindritf 14y ago
Group hierarchies on USENET were from least to most specific, for example sci.math.num-analysis.
- samatman 14y agoThere are good reasons for both of these choices. USENET was a taxonomy, at least in principle, although like any taxonomy of thought you ran into cases like sci.foo.bar and alt.foo.bar fairly often. A taxonomy should be read from general to specific. Email addresses are addresses. The metaphor is a geography, which goes from the specific to the general. Then we have URLS, which go from the specific to the general, hit a slash, reverse direction, and then explode into a bunch of hacked-on features.
- anonymfus 14y agoAddresses goes from specific to general mostly in countries influenced by British empire. Because international standard require to put city and country at the end, many countries have addresses with mixed order: street, home number, apartment number, city, country.
- jfb 14y agoThere are many, many, many people in the world at valid addresses never touched by the British Empire. China, Japan, Indonesia, Brazil, &c.