Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!uflorida!novavax!maddoxt From: maddoxt@novavax.UUCP (Thomas Maddox) Newsgroups: news.groups Subject: Re: CALL FOR DISCUSSION: talk.philosophy.objectivism Message-ID: <1745@novavax.UUCP> Date: 18 Jan 90 00:48:47 GMT References: <1990Jan13.140242.14111@twwells.com> <9001140024.AA18363@apee.ogi.edu> <9001142226.AA23247@apee.ogi.edu> <5286@buengc.BU.EDU> Reply-To: maddoxt@novavax.UUCP (Thomas Maddox) Organization: Nova University, Fort Lauderdale, Florida Lines: 34 In the spirit of goodwill that has pervaded news.groups lately, a proposal intended to solve several conflicts: Objectivism *obviously* belongs in the sci hierarchy, and equally obviously deserves special treatment: sci.gibbering.Objectivism.wells sci.gibbering.Objectivism.peoplewhohatewells. andthinkheknowsdickaboutObjectivism and in a special move designed to take into account the exceptionally profound and interesting nature of Objectivism: sci.gibbering.Objectivism.[insert name of any other loony who needs his or her own Objectivist newsgroup for reasons of doctrinal purity or sheer megalomania or just because] Then, regarding the rec.arts.cinema controversy, I suggest the creation of an entire new branch on the Usenet tree: arts. Then we could have arts.cinema.moderated (for those who remain afraid that the unwashed will do it in the streets and frighten the horses) and arts.cinema.anythinggoes for those misguided souls who insist upon allowing the plebes to express themselves without the decent intervention of an Initiate. Finally, let us have alt.cisco, a simple enough solution, but *only* if we also have alt.pancho. Yours sincerely, Tom "the Talleyrand of news.groups" Maddox.