Xref: utzoo news.groups:14632 talk.religion.newage:4911 Path: utzoo!yunexus!ists!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!ucsd!usc!cs.utexas.edu!ut-emx!walt.cc.utexas.edu!olorin From: olorin@walt.cc.utexas.edu (Dave Weinstein) Newsgroups: news.groups,talk.religion.newage Subject: Re: Poll results on newsgroup name Summary: Votes indicate talk.religion.pagan, moderated. Message-ID: <21086@ut-emx.UUCP> Date: 17 Nov 89 22:24:17 GMT Article-I.D.: ut-emx.21086 References: <982@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> <50495@oliveb.olivetti.com> <1989Nov10.023949.17957@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu> <20752@ut-emx.UUCP> Sender: news@ut-emx.UUCP Reply-To: olorin@walt.cc.utexas.edu (Dave Weinstein) Followup-To: news.groups Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas Lines: 43 In article <20752@ut-emx.UUCP> olorin@walt.cc.utexas.edu (Dave Weinstein) writes: # # Poll (Please send votes to olorin@walt.cc.utexas.edu) # ----------------------------------------------------- # # The proposed newgroup for the discussion of Wiccan and other # pagan issues: # # (1) Should be called talk.religion.pagan 10 votes # (2) Should be called talk.religion.neopagan 2 votes # (3) Should be called talk.religion.wicca 4 votes # (4) Should be called talk.religion.earth 5 votes # (5) Should be called talk.religion.nature 3 votes # (6) Should be called talk.religion.newage (i.e. don't do it) 6 votes # (7) Should be moderated 14 votes # (8) Should be unmoderated 7 votes So, the proposal under discussion is for a moderated newsgroup which is to be called talk.religion.pagan, and would be for the discussion of issues relating to the various pagan religions (with an emphasis on the nature religions because there seem to be more of followers of those religions on the net but with room for all). The moderation would be minimal, being used only to keep out the off-charter proselytizing which shows up on talk.religion.newage. It would not be there for the determination of what was and was not "right", or for the editing of messages (for one thing I just don't have the *time* for that). But moderation (as was mentioned by many of the voters) is the only way to keep people from spewing unwanted preaching all over the newsgroup. --Dave --- Dave Weinstein olorin@walt.cc.utexas.edu GEnie: OLORIN 9036 N. Lamar #274 Home: (512) 339-4407 Work: Don't Call Austin, TX 78753 Disclaimer: No one listens to me anyway.