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From: gan@herky.cs.uiowa.edu (Kok Siew Gan)
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Subject: Re: Call For Discussion about creating soc.culture.asean
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Date: 9 Oct 89 16:12:41 GMT
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>cultural affairs rather than political.  And for that, naming it
>s.c.asean is really too exclusive. 
>
>If Harish insists on naming it asean, he should move over to
>talk.politics or something. 

I don't believe all this fuss about the name. From the of mails I read, I 
think it's safe to say that most people don't want a newsgroup fully
dedicated to political issues in soc.culture and asean may imply a 
political organization to some people. So most people would vote for
s.c.se-asian. 
Also, Harish does not sound like he wants the Indochina countries to be
included in s.c.asean but in his proposal suggested including them later.
Why not include them now?
As someone who have just recently started using USENET, the best name would
be one that is easiest to understand. Names of individual countries like
s.c.china etc. are best but since we are talking about several countries
the obvious name would be based on the geographical location,
s.c.[se-asian | asian.southeast]. So enough with all this fuss. 

Now, stop bugging all the other culture newsgroup and take a vote!!!!!

Once the newsgroup is up, we can discuss whether ASEAN is a political
organization.

gan