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From: mehuld@APEE.OGI.EDU (Mehul Dave)
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Subject: Re: sci.philosophy.objectivism
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Date: 17 Jan 90 20:32:51 GMT
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In article <13004@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> greg@phoenix.princeton.edu (Greg Nowak) writes:

>}Now, wait a minute.  The chronology of events is like this.  Mr.
>}Stubblefield posted to sci.philosophy.tech judging it to be the most
>}appropriate newsgroup for his postings relating to Objectivism because
>}he could not find any other newsgroup appropriate for it.  Then there
>}was the suggestion to start a new newsgroup for postings related to
>}Objectivism in sci.philosophy.tech.  The call for discussion was for

>Welcome to usenet. Your chronology is faulty. It lacks a front end.
>Mr. Stubblefield began posting to sci.philosopy.tech MONTHS ago. He
>was informed that his postings were inappropriate there by several
>people who were around for the newsgroup's creation, and knew that it
>was for discussion of "technical applications of philosophy to
>science". (Eg, metalogic, formal languages) It was suggested that
>objectivist discussions, being philosophical, and not otherwise having
>their own newsgroup, belonged in talk.philosophy.misc, or the
>objectivist mailing lists. It later developed that Stubblefield had
>been on these lists and departed due to some squabble. At any rate, he
>continued to post his inappropriate articles to sci.philosophy.tech.

You're saying that Mr. Stubblefield's postings are not appropriate to
SPT as if this was a matter of fact when that is what you (and some
other readers of SPT) think.  There have been some discussions related
to his postings and even some support (some others also thought it was
inappropriate, however).  I am not going to get into this argument of
whether objectivist postings belong to SPT or not.  I think they do and
you think they don't.  In any event, this newsgroup is for the
discussion of new newsgroups (at least as far as I can tell).  The
discussion was for the creation of a newsgroup relating to
objectivism.  You're bringing up an issue that does not belong here and
I am not going to contiue along those lines.

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