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From: rkr@cs.washington.edu (R. K. Raj)
Newsgroups: news.groups,soc.culture.misc,soc.culture.china,soc.culture.indian,soc.culture.hongkong,soc.culture.taiwan,soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: ******** Call For Votes about creating soc.culture.asean ********
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Date: 22 Oct 89 17:51:05 GMT
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Reply-To: rkr@june.cs.washington.edu (R. K. Raj)
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I normally believe in the principle of "live and let live," but since
nothing has been done to address the issue of name, I will take this
opportunity to request people to vote NO to the group under its present
name, soc.culture.asean. Two of the reasons are:

  (a) nearly all the original objectives of this newsgroup were
POLITICAL in nature, and definitely not SOCIAL nor CULTURAL. I invite
Harish Pillay, the prime mover of this newsgroup, to repost his original
message. I would have done this but my site has unfortunately removed
the old message. 

  (b) During the discussion period, several folks have observed their
dissatisfaction with the name for geographical reasons -- the name,
soc.culture.asean, does not address these reasons adequately.

Note that my opposition is to the newsgroup under the proposed name,
soc.culture.asean. In short, for these reasons and others, please vote
against this name by sending a message, with

  Subject: NO TO SOC.CULTURE.ASEAN 

to Harish Pillay, whose mail addresses are:

  Internet: harish@ece.orst.edu
  UUCP:     uunet!ece.orst.edu!harish

- R. K. Raj