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From: marino@maui.cs.ucla.edu (Fabio Marino)
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Subject: Re:  Trial group status
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Date: 13 May 91 22:59:18 GMT
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In article <1991May13.191113.10112@athena.mit.edu> gennaro@athena.mit.edu (Rosario Gennaro) writes:
>In article <#GN_FK@warwick.ac.uk> esrmm@warwick.ac.uk (Denis Anthony) writes:
>>In article <1991May10.140252.16863@agate.berkeley.edu> marchi@gold.cchem.berkeley.edu (Massimo Marchi) writes:
>>>
>>>I suggest that this time you don't get involved, please!
>>>See a previous posting by Fabio Marino.
>>>
>>
>>If you were the rule rather than the exception, I should not
>>want to be involved. 
>>
>>ps. I thank Fabio for initiating the call for discussion.
>
>Since it seems that the gratitude is optional, I just want to thank Denis
>for having given us in the past 5 months a forum of discussions (even if
>reduced by the trial status). It's not his fault if the trial system doesn't
>work, and in any case without tsci we won't be here talking about sci since
>in many years none made a call for discussion to create an Italian group.

I am sorry but I think you are mistaken about the last point. I was
actually discussing the opportunity of creating soc.culture.italian
back in December on rec.sport.soccer, when I received a message from
Marco Isopi telling me of the existance of t.s.c.i. so I just
subscribed to the new group.

My thanks to Denis for creating t.s.c.i., but in a sense this costed
us 5 months, even though he didn't know....

>
>Finally a personal opinion: I think that any group should pass through
>a trial period of maybe less than 5 months. In this way it would be easier
>to understand what are the real important groups and what are the groups
>that in a few months will become "bogus"
>
>---Rosario