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From: chuq@Apple.COM (Chuq Von Rospach)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: NewsGroup Renaming
Message-ID: <35984@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 27 Oct 89 19:44:27 GMT
References: <1989Oct27.164842.14655@world.std.com>
Organization: Life is just a Fantasy novel played for keeps
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>Renaming is worth considering but nothing I've seen so far (I may have
>missed some discussion) seems worthy of consideration.

>The field of formal subject classification is several hundred years
>old. All I've seen here are strange, barely amateurish attempts to
>reinvent this field from scratch, off the top of people's heads.

>I say if we rename again we do it for real and get some professional
>librarians and other knowledge classification experts involved.

Sounds good to me. I've done the best I can, but I'm obviously not trained
in this stuff. Since yo feel it's so important, why don't you volunteer to
spearhead the project. You have my support, for what it's worth -- if the
proposal you come up with is worthy, I'll do everything I can to get it
implemented.

I do the best I can. If someone can do it better, I'll be the first to
stand back and let them do it -- and help where I can without getting in their
way. Go for it!


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Chuq Von Rospach <+> Editor,OtherRealms <+> Member SFWA/ASFA
chuq@apple.com <+> CI$: 73317,635 <+> [This is myself speaking]

Trust Mama Nature to remind us just how important things like sci.aquaria's
name really is in the scheme of things.