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From: davidbe@sco.COM (The Cat in the Hat)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: CALL FOR DISCUSSION:  SCI.VIRTUAL-WORLDS
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Date: 30 Nov 89 01:30:32 GMT
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news.groups's own ifab750@walt.cc.utexas.edu (Matthew S. Cohen) said:
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-                 I am calling for a re-evaluation of your decision
-to put the group in sci.*  I feel that for the group to reach as
-many people as possible, it must be in an accessible newsgroup [...]
-[M]any of us do not read sci.* groups because the implication is
-that they will be limited to discussions of a techinical nature.

This is a valid argument.  From the initial call for discussion, I didn't
detect much of an emphasis in the "How to build an artificial environment"
part of a virtual world; that's what the sci implies.

-Next, why are you and Howard so damn afraid of the 'cyberspace' label?

I don't like the "cyberspace" label because of what it implies.  And that's
science fiction with little to no basis in reality.  Cyberspace is 
so intertwined with Gibson and Gibson-esqe writing that it implies something
incompletely different from what the virtual worlds group would be about.

I like misc.virtual-worlds.  And if "virtual world" isn't a curious enough
concept for you, then you've been arguing aquariums/aquaria too long.

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