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From: pingali@umvlsi.ecs.umass.edu (Sridhar Pingali)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: CALL FOR DISCUSSION: talk.religion.eastern
Message-ID: <646@umvlsi.ecs.umass.edu>
Date: 25 Jan 90 19:06:37 GMT
References: <4460@amelia.nas.nasa.gov> <21754@unix.cis.pitt.edu>
Reply-To: pingali@umvlsi.ecs.umass.edu (Sridhar Pingali)
Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst
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In article <21754@unix.cis.pitt.edu> srinath@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Srinath  Viswanathan) writes:
>
>soc.religion.eastern to talk.religion.eastern over the course of a day.
>The original call for soc.religion.eastern was dated 9 Jan 90. The call
>for talk.religion.eastern, claiming a lack of response to the first
>message, is dated 10 Jan 90. Is one day really enough to consider a
>name change? If there are indeed good reasons for the name change,
>shouldn't people get a chance to air them first? Lastly, if it is any
>consolation, my site received both messages today, 19 Jan 90.
>

Exactly -  my site too received the calls late and both arrived
on the same day. A large number of sites do not receive the talk.
groups - mine does not. You have a large number of potential NO
votes out there- including mine.


So might I - for the same reason. But I don't want to prevent the
creation of such a newsgroup. I would vote YES for soc. etc.


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Sridhar Pingali