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From: riddle@ut-sally.UUCP (Prentiss Riddle)
Newsgroups: net.news.group,net.nlang,net.nlang.celts,net.misc
Subject: net.nlang.*
Message-ID: <514@ut-sally.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 3-Dec-83 20:56:19 EST
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Posted: Sat Dec  3 20:56:19 1983
Date-Received: Sun, 4-Dec-83 09:36:02 EST
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The creation of net.nlang.celts raises some interesting questions.
One of them (which I won't pursue any further than simply to pose it)
is why it should be a subgroup of net.nlang.  The other is simply:
why just Celts?  Why not other ethnic/linguistic groups as well?  I
mean no disrespect for our Celtic friends, but I suspect that there
are at least as many people on the net with an interest in/a knowledge
of Hispanic, German, French, Indian, Chinese, Japanese, African, ...
languages and/or cultures as Celtic ones.

I am not proposing any specific newsgroups.  What I am doing is volun-
teering to count votes for other ethnic/linguistic newsgroups.  In a
week or two I will tally the results and post them to net.news.group.
If there is sufficient interest (whatever that means -- did someone once
say that 20 "yes" votes were enough?) I trust that the Powerful Ones
who create newsgroups will do their stuff.

Please mail your nominations to ...ut-sally!riddle.  Discussion of the
question of ethnic/linguistic newsgroups in general should be posted to
net.news.group.
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Prentiss Riddle
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