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From: gsmith@garnet.berkeley.edu (Gene W. Smith)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: CALL FOR DISCUSSION: talk.philosophy.objectivism
Keywords: Objectivism, Ayn Rand, talk.philosophy.objectivism
Message-ID: <1990Jan18.083423.29838@agate.berkeley.edu>
Date: 18 Jan 90 08:34:23 GMT
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In-reply-to: stata@hplabsb.HP.COM (Raymie Stata)

In article <5556@hplabsb.HP.COM>, stata@hplabsb (Raymie Stata) writes:

>If the group is restricted to technical discussions of technical issues
>in philosophy, then it would belong in the "sci." hierarchy.

  Why? Talk.philosophy.misc is often technical, and is certainly
more technical than "sci".objectivism would likely be. Yet it's
in the "talk" hierarchy.
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