Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!mailrus!purdue!bu-cs!bloom-beacon!eru!luth!sunic!mcsun!ukc!icdoc!zmacx07 From: zmacx07@doc.ic.ac.uk (Simon E Spero) Newsgroups: news.groups Subject: Re: *CALL FOR DISCUSSION - New group "rec.arts.uk.misc"* Message-ID: Date: 8 Dec 89 19:24:40 GMT References: <875@philmtl.philips.ca> <1989Dec6.142944.19502@dvinci.usask.ca> Sender: news@doc.ic.ac.uk Organization: The Society of the Department of Computing, Imperial College Lines: 39 >>>>> On 6 Dec 89 14:29:44 GMT, maton@dvinci.usask.ca (Terry Maton) said: Tel> From article <875@philmtl.philips.ca>, by ray@philmtl.philips.ca (Ray Dunn): > In article <8911281706.AA06461@ncar.UCAR.EDU> writes: >> >>As there are many locations that do not get the '.soc' newsgroups it >>would seem appropriate to have this group under the '.rec' heading. Just a historical note, but up until recently, Europe used to get soc.culture.* but only a few rec.arts groups (rec.arts.tv.uk wasn't one of them!). I can see valid reasons why this may be the case for other sites as well. No point causing IDOTN if it doesn't improve distribution! Namespace pollution kills fish and birds. Tel> I would agree that we should look at a new group Tel> 'soc.culture.british' and would be pleased to initiate the Tel> call for discussion in the new year, or to support one from Tel> someone else. Harking back to the soc.culture.commonwealth discussion, I seem to remember that a lot of the people who opposed the group were objecting on naming grounds- mostly that the charter was drawn to wide. A finer targeted group should go through no problem at all. Personally, I would prefer soc.culture.uk, but either is ok. Of, course, the other alternatives are comp.sys.difference-engine (every site should have one), or sci.aquaria.fish'n'chips . Tel> Terry Maton University of Saskatchewan Saskatoon Tel> Saskatchewan Canada Simon -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ zmacx07@doc.ic.ac.uk | sispero%cix@specialix.co.uk | ..!ukc!slxsys!cix!sispero ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Advisers advise, Prime Ministers decide" | Not the official view. "The GNU Manifesto refers to all Software, not just Editors" | (I'm the FSF)