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From: tugs@utcsrgv.UUCP (Stephen Hull)
Newsgroups: net.cog-eng
Subject: Re: net.cog-eng name re-considered
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Date: Fri, 26-Aug-83 21:18:25 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 26 21:18:25 1983
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I can't help but think that the subdivision of net.cog-eng into several
new (newer?) newsgroups, based on hardware orientation, software orientation,
cognition orientation, control systems orientation, etc., etc. would be --
dare I say it? -- bad cognitive engineering.
I'm interested in pretty well all that is discussed or can be discussed here,
and I don't really care if the name of the newsgroup is net.pastrami;
conceiving of a newsgroup, attempting to find an appropriate name, and then
trying to judge appropriateness of submitted articles on the basis of that name
strikes me as a mite bass-ackwards. If I have an article to submit, I don't
want to indulge in any deep soul-searching to decide where to submit it, and if
I'm reading a newsgroup and I come upon an article I don't want to read --
well, I *do* have an 'n' key.
   Let us never forget that the motto of the HAVK rot 13 (*) operating system,
before the Berkeley people got their hands on it, was:
			Small is Beautiful
   Amen.

(*) HAVK rot 13 is a trademark of Oryy Ynof rot 13.

	steve hull
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