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From: jeremy@klahhane.stat.washington.edu (Jeremy York)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: Call for Discussion: talk.lists
Keywords: And could probably be crossposted to about 10 other groups...
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Date: 1 Dec 89 18:18:10 GMT
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In article <472@scorn.sco.COM> davidbe@uunet.uu.net (The Cat in the Hat) writes:
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>Other possible names would be: "talk.statistics" and "talk.surveys".  These
                                      ^^^^^^^^^^            ^^^^^^^

Stick with talk.lists.

Both 'statistic' and 'survey' have technical meanings that would result
in confusion between the new group and sci.math.stat...

Three cheers for talk.lists, and get this crud out of our already
overcrowded newsgroups.

jeremy@klahhane.stat.washington.edu


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