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From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: CALL FOR DISCUSSION:  SCI.VIRTUAL-WORLDS
Keywords: cyberspace, virtual reality
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Date: 22 Nov 89 16:11:38 GMT
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Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
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  Would the misc. be a good place for this? It certainly does contain a
lot of science, but there seems to be a lot of "non-quantifyable" art
aspect to, involving what does and doesn't create a convincing effect.

  As a talking point:
	misc.cyberspace			- general discussions
	misc.cyberspace.visual
	misc.cyberspace.audio

  A few other thoughts, I like cyberspace better than virtual-worlds
because it sounds more like science and less like fantasy (wizards and
warriors) to me. That doesn't mean I oppose the original name, just
giving some input.

  I also think that this might be a good place to try a self
administrating group, assuming that other agree that a heirarchy is or
might be needed. If one person were appointed to determine the need for
new namespace within misc.cyberspace we could get some experience with
the practice. Perhaps that person could send mail to Greg when a group
was desired, just to be sure the actual doing was properly handled.

  This seems like a nice non-controversial group to peacefully explore
the possibilities of distributed management.
-- 
bill davidsen	(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
"The world is filled with fools. They blindly follow their so-called
'reason' in the face of the church and common sense. Any fool can see
that the world is flat!" - anon