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From: MICHAL@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (Michal Chmielewski)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: Call for discussion: soc.culture.polish
Message-ID: <21792@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
Date: 22 Jan 90 16:10:02 GMT
References: <21137@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> <3373@cbnewsj.ATT.COM> <4287@vanuata.cs.glasgow.ac.uk>
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In article <4287@vanuata.cs.glasgow.ac.uk>, jack@cs.glasgow.ac.uk (Jack Campin) writes:
> Some while ago a soc.culture.slavic group was proposed.  The proposal got
> derailed by a nitpicking discussion about whether Lithuanians counted.  It
> seems odd to me that we're proposing a group for a specific part of the
> Slavic world (or of Eastern Europe) before having a more general one.  Do
> we need to create a soc.culture.montenegrin group before we can mention the
> place, for example?

 I am proposing this group because the mailing list POLAND-L is being 
heavily  used and we hope that naturally, there is enough support
to create soc.culture.polish. Maybe that way, we can also avoid 
discussion whether Lithuanians count or not.

> What's happened with the East Asian groups has been a chaotic mess we can
> well do without replicating elsewhere.  A soc.culture.slavic or
> soc.culture.ee group would help prevent that.  Both soc.culture.arabic and
> soc.culture.celtic have worked reasonably well without tying themselves to
> a specific nation-state.

 Maybe the name of the group is wrong then ? Anyone want to comment on
it ? Maybe talk.politics.polish will be more appropriate than
soc.culture.polish ? I just peeped at soc.culture.arabic and lots of 
the postings are about Islam. 

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