From: utzoo!decvax!genradbo!linus!security!wdr
Newsgroups: net.news.groups,net.sf-lovers
Title: re: literature in net.sf-lovers
Article-I.D.: security.209
Posted: Fri Mar 25 15:26:07 1983
Received: Sat Mar 26 10:35:39 1983

Tom (tfl@security.uucp),

I fear you misread my intent. I feel that literary discusison of science 
fiction books is possible and does belong in net.books. Whether listings
of books involving computers belongs in net.books or net.sf-lovers, I 
don't know and don't care.  But I suspect that is what upset the non-sf
literary subscribers to net.books.

I was specifically attempting to defend SF in net.books, while casting
a vote to the wind (as seems not uncommon) for some categorization in
net.sf-lovers.  (It seems to me that most days net.sf-lovers has more
traffic that net.micro.all, though that's strictly subjective.)

It would be unfortunate if SF discussions in net.books were to drive 
non-sf folk out of a news group which should not be a single genre's.
It is unfortunate that the occaisional massive volume in sf-lovers on
a single trivia topic drives some of sf-literature types out of sf-lovers.

Myself, I keyword-filter net.sf-lovers, net.women, net.misc and net.flame,
to give me automatic 'n'key for followups to articles which bore me.


Bill Ricker (wdr@security.uucp)
decvax!{wivax|genrad[bo]}!linus!security!wdr