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From: arrom@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu (Ken Arromdee)
Newsgroups: news.groups,news.misc,sci.misc,talk.religion.newage,talk.philosophy.misc
Subject: Re: *** CALL FOR DISCUSSION *** Creation of newsgroup sci.skeptic
Keywords: new age new science parapsychology skepticism
Message-ID: <1582@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu>
Date: 16 Jun 89 00:56:50 GMT
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Reply-To: arrom@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu (Ken Arromdee (600.429))
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>I have been personally shocked lately as to the promulgation of the   
>so-called New Age in the media and in people's living rooms and
>discussions.  Since there is even a newsgroup dedicated to it, I
>wondered if a skeptical group might not be called for.
>The idea would be that the group would be unmoderated and that issues
>of New Ageism and its ilk might be discussed openly and skeptically.
>If it seems as though I want only to bask these kind of ideas, it is
>only my abhorance of these sorts of things merely accepted and not
>discussed critically.  No bashing allowed!
>What think you?
>Norman R. Gall

I'll go for this idea.

Incidentally, the article to which I was responding had news.admin as the
first group, and several others after it.  News.groups was not included (it
should have been).  But if it had been added at the end, it wouldn't have
mattered--since the news software automatically set the followup-to line
to the first group in the list, had news.groups been at the end, no followups
to the article would have gone to news.groups.

An excellent argument for REMOVING this "feature" as soon as possible.
--
"The fact is self evident from the text and requires no supporting argument."
  --Tim Maroney

Kenneth Arromdee (UUCP: ....!jhunix!ins_akaa; BITNET: g49i0188@jhuvm;
     INTERNET: arromdee@crabcake.cs.jhu.edu) (please, no mail to arrom@aplcen)