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From: yamauchi@cs.rochester.edu (Brian Yamauchi)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: CALL FOR DISCUSSION:  SCI.VIRTUAL-WORLDS
Message-ID: <1989Nov19.230638.7288@cs.rochester.edu>
Date: 19 Nov 89 23:06:38 GMT
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In article <21166@ut-emx.UUCP> ifab750@walt.cc.utexas.edu (Matthew S. Cohen) writes:
>In their call for discussion, Rheingold and Jacobson seem to suggest
>that the content of the group would be more than just that of a
>comp.interfaces offshoot.  In fact, IMHO what they are suggesting 
>transcends even the bounds of a sci newsgroup.  My opinion then
>would be to model the group after the discussions which occur around 
>philosophy and make the group talk.cyberspace.

talk.* groups tend to be high volume flamefests (politics, philosophy,
abortion, origins, etc.) which many sites refuse to carry.  I don't
see any reason why a discussion of cyberspace / virtual reality would
fall into this category, so instead, I would suggest one of the
following:

	comp.cyberspace
	soc.cyberspace
	comp.society.cyberspace

I also don't see any need for a moderator -- I think it would be best
to have an *unmoderated* group with a faster response time.

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Brian Yamauchi				University of Rochester
yamauchi@cs.rochester.edu		Computer Science Department
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