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From: jtchew@csa2.lbl.gov (JOSEPH T CHEW)
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Subject: Update on fate of SCI.TECH-COMM proposal
Date: 28-MAR-1991 21:32:20 GMT   
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Thank you, everyone, for your responses to the proposal for SCI.TECH-COMM,
a newsgroup about technical writing and other forms of professional
communication.  Much has happened in the past three weeks; here is an update.

Several well-reasoned arguments persuaded me to fold my proposal into
a more or less simultaneous discussion of another proposal, MISC.WRITING.
Its leading proponent is L.A.Z. Smith (leah@smith.chi.il.us).  I think
that, with appropriate use of keywords, we can make scholarly and
practical discussions of technical writing coexist with other discussions
in that broadly defined newsgroup.

The proposed charter for MISC.WRITING is currently being argued about in
NEWS.GROUPS, the newsgroup about newsgroups.  (I post this here because 
the MISC.WRITING Request for Discussion did not seem to make it very
far into the sci. and comp. hierarchies, where most of the interest in
SCI.TECH-COMM was found.)

The relevant Subject: lines are Call for Discussion: SCI.TECH-COMM and 
RFD:  MISC.WRITING (note the two spaces).  If you're interested, you might 
want to drop in. Followups are directed there exclusively. 

--Joe