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From: ciancarini-paolo@cs.yale.edu (paolo ciancarini)
Newsgroups: trial.soc.culture.italian
Subject: Re: New newsgroups
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Date: 3 May 91 16:14:49 GMT
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In article <1991May02.162326.24499@ghost.unimi.it> montra@ghost.unimi.it (Paolo Montrasio) writes:
>vancleef@iastate.edu (Van Cleef Henry H) writes:
>
>>The soc.culture.canada group was proposed here at Iowa State, voted on,
>>passed overwhelmingly, and has been very popular.  Soc.culture.europe
>>has now passed overwhelmingly.  How long is it going to be before
>>Italy is formally recognized along with all of the other European
>>nations in the soc.culture group?
>
>Maybe when there will be more computers, computer users and computer-network
>users, here in Italy. If we have not > 100 voters we cannot have > 100 votes
>to create a newsgroup.
>

The argument that since there are not enough Italians on the Internet
the vote would fail is not supported by any evidence. 
Contrariwise, I believe that such a newgroup
would be passed "overwhelmingly" even now that there are so few
sites in Italy. I trust in the open minds of internetters.
Moreover, there are many Italians on internet sites out of Italy,
and such a newsgroup would be important to connect them.

What I do not know is if it is allowed to call for votes when such a silly
trial.soc.culture.italian trial group does exists yet.
When is it scheduled to finish the trial period?
Hopefully the originator of such a group could clarify matters!

Paolo Ciancarini