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From: ntt@dciem.UUCP (Mark Brader)
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Subject: If you must have net.stat, call it net.math.stat
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Date: Wed, 23-May-84 12:42:29 EDT
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Posted: Wed May 23 12:42:29 1984
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It is obvious that statistics is a mathematical topic, so it should be
discussed in net.math or in a subgroup of that.  If there's one thing
the net doesn't need, it's another unnecessary top level group.*

Personally, I see no need for a statistics group at all.  Where are all
the messages about statistics cluttering up net.math?  This is why
subgroups are created -- an excellent recent example being net.tv.soaps,
created because a lot of net.tv readers were uninterested in the subtopic
but it was generating a lot of traffic.  I don't see this happening with
statistics.  Don't create it unless you have a better case than "we felt
net.math was inappropriate".**

And if it does end up being created, do it right.  Name it net.math.stat.

Mark Brader
*Tautology deliberate, for emphasis.  **Approx. quote from original proposal.