Newsgroups: news.groups
Path: utzoo!sq!msb
From: msb@sq.sq.com (Mark Brader)
Subject: Re: Call for Discussion: Create a new newsgroup talk.politics.american
Message-ID: <1989Nov15.205802.2719@sq.sq.com>
Summary: talk.politics.us(a)
Reply-To: msb@sq.com (Mark Brader)
Organization: SoftQuad Inc., Toronto
References: <1989Nov6.000842.12017@agate.berkeley.edu> <1989Nov8.144231.1468@alzabo.uucp>
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 89 20:58:02 GMT

> Do you include all OAS countries in "domestic America"? If not,
> I think it might be clearer to name the group talk.politics.usa.

Let's make it even simpler.  If the name is "talk.politics.american"
then there will *inevitably* be repetitive postings about exactly which
meaning of "American" is meant.  In Canada and in the USA, *most*
people use the word to mean "USA-an", so that's what I'm assuming
was meant -- I was away and missed the original posting.

On that assumption I, too, urge that if the group is formed then it
should be "talk.politics.us" or "talk.politics.usa".

-- 
Mark Brader			"Nicely self-consistent. (Pay no attention to
SoftQuad Inc., Toronto		 that D-floating number behind the curtain!)"
utzoo!sq!msb, msb@sq.com			-- Chris Torek, on pasta

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