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From: craig@com2serv.C2S.MN.ORG (Craig S. Wilson)
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Subject: Re: CALL FOR DISCUSSION:  SCI.VIRTUAL-WORLDS
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Date: 11 Dec 89 12:46:26 GMT
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In article <4859@blake.acs.washington.edu> maddox@blake.acs.washington.edu (Tom Maddox) writes:
>	Right.  And Peter da Silva "created" the other groups for
>*his* reasons (see his posting, if you wish, on this matter),
>and people who have actually posted to the groups and cross-posted
>among them have done so for their reasons.  I have noticed before this
>tendency of people who issued the message creating groups to think
>that somehow (a) others know precisely why they did so, 

Again, there was discussion prior to the creation of the alt.cyberspace
group which indicated what it was intended to be about.

>(b) the actual
>practice in the group will somehow conform to what the message creator
>had in mind. 

Not at all.  This is why I described alt.cyberpunk in terms of the
most recent postings with some references to prior events.
Alt.cyberspace will also be defined by the people who post there.  The
same does not hold for moderated groups, however.  In these groups,
there is another force at work.

/craig