Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!texbell!sugar!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: news.groups Subject: Re: CALL FOR DISCUSSION: SCI.VIRTUAL-WORLDS Message-ID: <7248@ficc.uu.net> Date: 9 Dec 89 13:06:44 GMT References: <1989Dec5.173743.651@mentor.com> <3186@com50.C2S.MN.ORG> <4828@blake.acs.washington.edu> Reply-To: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 30 In article <4828@blake.acs.washington.edu> maddox@blake.acs.washington.edu (Tom Maddox) writes: > In article <3186@com50.C2S.MN.ORG> craig@com2serv.c2s.mn.org (Craig S. Wilson) writes: > >Just to correct a possible misconception, alt.cyberspace was created > >to discuss the technical aspects of cyberspace and virtual realities > >without lifestyle overtones. Alt.cyberpunk exists to discuss more > >fictional (predominately Gibsonian) aspects of these subjects. > I think this is an instance of revisionist net.history. I don't think so. That's almost exactly what I had in mind when I created alt.cyberpunk.tech and later on alt.cyberspace. Since I created them, don't you think I'd know *why* I created them? Alt isn't usenet. It doesn't depend on consensus. > Sci.virtual-worlds would probably have the effect of siphoning > off the various technical (or pseudo-technical) discussions about > implmentation of cyberspace from the alt groups; alt.cyberpunk might > or might not survive. I doubt it. There's not likely to be much interest in techy, literary, or other dissection of William Gibson in sci.virtual-worlds. I suspect that the traffic in alt.cyberspace would drop and it might be removed, but alt.cyberpunk and alt.cyberpunk.tech will remain, if only as a place to direct cyberpunk wannabes to when they show up in sci.virtual-worlds. -- `-_-' Peter da Silva. +1 713 274 5180. . 'U` Also or . "If you want PL/I, you know where to find it." -- Dennis