Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!agate!usenet From: gsmith@garnet.berkeley.edu (Gene W. Smith) Newsgroups: news.groups Subject: Re: Cyberpunk/space/tech/virtual-reality Message-ID: <1989Dec13.024946.18073@agate.berkeley.edu> Date: 13 Dec 89 02:49:46 GMT References: <4860@blake.acs.washington.edu> <1989Dec11.182321.10799@cs.rochester.edu> Sender: usenet@agate.berkeley.edu (USENET Administrator;;;;ZU44) Reply-To: gsmith@garnet.berkeley.edu (Gene W. Smith) Organization: Garnet Gang Gems of Wisdom, Inc. Lines: 15 In-reply-to: yamauchi@cs.rochester.edu (Brian Yamauchi) In article <1989Dec11.182321.10799@cs.rochester.edu>, yamauchi@cs (Brian Yamauchi) writes: >I think discussion of the social effects of virtual reality would be >completely compatible with the charter of sci.virtual-worlds (or >sci.cyberspace, or whatever). Almost anything would be compatible with the charter of sci.virtual-worlds. The charter was a mess, and the group if created will probably be a mess. I suspect a moderated group with better defined charter would be preferable. -- ucbvax!garnet!gsmith Gene Ward Smith/Brahms Gang/Berkeley CA 94720 "Last week in a dream I gave a fellow my shirt buttons to differentiate and the fellow ran away with them." -- Engels