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From: paleo@uncecs.edu (Constantine A. LaPasha)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: re: sci.virtual-worlds
Message-ID: <1989Nov27.205115.24592@uncecs.edu>
Date: 27 Nov 89 20:51:15 GMT
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I think there is a definite need for a newsgroup in this area
and that the timing is appropriate.  "Virtual-worlds" seems
appropriate since that is the term in current use by those
involved in this research, as opposed to the "cyber..." versions
which seem to be in vogue with the fiction writers.  The 
subject IS real science, and systems of this nature exist now.
We need a forum for serious discussion of the technology and
its implications, and since the site here does not carry
any alt or talk groups, I'll be selfish and push for sci. even
though I think it really belongs in sci. anyway.  

summary: yes to sci.virtual-worlds
          since a serious cross-discipline forum is needed
          and virtual-worlds is the defacto accepted term
          by workers in this field