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From: randall@uvaarpa.virginia.edu (Randall Atkinson)
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Subject: Chinese newsgroups
Keywords: soc.culture.china, chinese, taiwan, hong kong
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Date: 17 Jul 89 14:29:24 GMT
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If there were still a backbone I would propose that
a small renaming is in order.  Regrettably there
is no clear method to get groups renamed.

In particular, Tim Lee's notion of
creating :

soc.culture.china.mainland
soc.culture.china.taiwan
soc.culture.china.hongkong

makes a lot of sense.  Of course, the
group talk.politics.china is also clearly
needed since the discussions existing
in soc.culture.china are 70% or more
political rather than cultural.

One of the mistakes in creating 
soc.culture.china was in making it
unmoderated.  It needs some moderation
just to try to keep the purely political
debate out so that some cultural discussions
could survive.

Now I apologise if you feel I've said
enough previously, but I am hoping that
some bright net person will come up with
a means to salvage this situation.

If soc.culture.taiwan and soc.culture.hongkong
get created then this is only going to get
worse.