Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!cogsci!dave From: dave@cogsci.indiana.edu (David Chalmers) Newsgroups: news.groups Subject: Re: *CALL FOR DISCUSSION - New group "rec.arts.uk.misc"* Summary: Call it soc.culture.british Message-ID: <30725@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> Date: 3 Dec 89 07:05:22 GMT References: <8911281706.AA06461@ncar.UCAR.EDU> Sender: root@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu Reply-To: dave@cogsci.indiana.edu (David Chalmers) Organization: Indiana University, Bloomington Lines: 27 In article <8911281706.AA06461@ncar.UCAR.EDU> writes: >There has been a lot of comment in recent times regarding postings >to 'rec.arts.tv.uk' that have nothing to do with TV. >However, I think it is time to give a seperate sub-group for these >questions/discussions of things such as food, customs, sayings etc. > >[calls for "rec.arts.uk.misc"] I know you mean well, but you have zero chance of getting this group created under "rec" unless you have very thick skin and lots and lots of chocolate. I recommend against it. It should be fine under "soc". We recently held a vote on soc.culture.commonwealth, which failed, I think because people felt that it wasn't a cohesive enough topic (also because I didn't have enough chocolate :-). Soc.culture.british wouldn't suffer from this problem. I'd be very interested in reading it. Incidentally, I think that "soc.culture.british" is a better name than "soc.culture.uk". Mostly because it stresses the deeper, cultural issues rather than the more surface-level political ones. Also because this way you'll avoid endless flames about Northern Ireland. (It's also a better analogy with most existing soc.culture.* groups.) -- Dave Chalmers (dave@cogsci.indiana.edu) Concepts and Cognition, Indiana University. "To live outside the law you must be honest..." Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com