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From: lori@hacgate.UUCP (Lori Barfield)
Newsgroups: news.groups,alt.kids-talk
Subject: Re: Renewed call f/ discussion : ALT.KIDS
Message-ID: <6352@hacgate.UUCP>
Date: 5 Dec 89 22:16:20 GMT
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Reply-To: lori@hacgate.UUCP (Lori Barfield)
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OK, I've been biting my tongue long enuff.  Here's My Arrogant Opinion:

I like the idea of a group oriented to kids, whether it has to start
out under the anarchy class (alt.) or not.  Right now, the closest
thing is misc.kids.  That is a parenting-oriented group, and yes, we're
quite mundane.  There are many things I'd enjoy debating in an open
forum dominated by kids:  school, books and movies, vacations,
siblings and parents, moving to a new home, hobbies, pets....

(The way this discussion's been going so far, the first topic should
be discrimination by adults!)

What I'd love most to see are postings of poetry, humor, and creative
writing by kid (and kidphile) contributors.

Such a newsgroup with an international distribution would be
interesting to watch--  how would a child attending sixth grade in
the UK see things differently from a kid the same age in, say, Texas?

"?.kids-only" would not be a good name, since it would imply
exclusivity inappropriate for any public forum.



...lori

P.S.  If a kids' group ever gets to a Call for Votes, I think the votes
      should be weighted inversely by the age of the caster.  ;-)

P.P.S.  Note the cross-post.


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