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From: kayvan@mrspoc.Transact.COM (Kayvan Sylvan)
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Subject: Re: sci.skeptic? talk.skeptic!
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Date: 11 Oct 89 04:05:15 GMT
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>>>>> "Doug" == Doug Merritt <doug@xdos.UUCP> writes: [about talk.skeptic]

Doug> Once again, don't be silly. This suffers from the same flaw as your
Doug> comment about the establishment of *.flame. People very, very rarely
Doug> flame in *.flame _rather_ than in the original newsgroup. If you
Doug> establish talk.skeptic, it will only move about 5% of the traffic.
Doug> It may simultaneously create new traffic in larger volume than we're
Doug> seeing here...

The obvious solution, then is to rmgroup sci.skeptic and re-establish
it as talk.skeptic. If you have followed any of the discussions on
talk.skeptic (errr... I mean, sci.skeptic) like I have, it would be
obvious why such a renaming is so incredibly appropriate.

It would not even be such a great loss to have a reduced distribution
because of the change of heirarchies.

The latest subjects of discussion on "sci.skeptic":

     Re: Does the Earth really go around the Sun?
     Re: Science
     Re: Science vs. religion
     Re: BM UFO Case
     UFO's in general (was BM UFO Case, Rebuttal^2
     Re: Billy Meier / Shroud of Turin
     Chiropracty Marches Forward
     Hundredth Monkey
     Re: "Creation-Science"
     Natural Vs. Supernatural (Was Sci. Vs. Religion)
     Re: TASS says aliens have arrived.
     NSA docs, Deuley, and Klass
     Re: sci.skeptic? talk.skeptic!
     Re: Mysterious crop-field rings.

The level of science in these postings is almost entirely non-existent.
More precisely, the level of science in these postings is no more than
that found in an ordinary conversation with the average American.
Therefore, the group should be renamed talk.skeptic.

QED.

			---Kayvan
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