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From: John Griffith <griffith@sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de>
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Subject: Re: Feature Request. Topic Group Parameters...
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>>>>> "KR" == Ken Raeburn <raeburn@cygnus.com> writes:

    KR> How should that deal with a group that falls under two topics?

    KR> Ken

How about asking the user what should be done?

Allow topics to have group parameters specified on them, but only use
these to update group parameters on actual groups when moving groups
into topics or changing topic-specified parameters.

When changing a group parameter on a topic, ask the user if all groups
should inherit this parameter, or whether s/he would like to go
through each group individually, showing old values and the possible
replacements (if they're different).  (Like the initial subscription
sequence.)

When a group is added to a topic ask if the group should inherit all
of the topics group parameters, or go through each one individually.

Since the user can only add a group to one topic at a time, there is
no conflict.

This might get irritating if the user moves groups around in the topic
hierarchy a lot and has lots of conflicting parameters specified on
topics.