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From: gjk@talcott.UUCP (Greg Kuperberg)
Newsgroups: net.politics,net.news.group
Subject: More on net.politics.nukes/net.politics.arms
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Date: Fri, 12-Apr-85 15:16:25 EST
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A week or so ago I suggested to the net that net.politics.nukes or
net.politics.arms be created.  As usual, most of the posters in
net.politics are preoccupied with actually arguing about weapons and war
than with whether or not there should be a subgroup created for such
discussion.  Nevertheless, the following people mailed to me indicating
that they wished for a new subgroup:

Login:			Name:			Voted for:
gjk@talcott		Greg Kuperberg		net.politics.arms
egs@gamma		Ed Sheppard		net.politics.arms
msb@lsuc		Mark Brader		net.politics.arms
matthews@harvard	Jim Matthews		net.politics.nukes
mjk@ttrdc		(none given)		net.politics.nukes
dbrown@watarts		Dave Brown		net.politics.nukes
cjh@petsd		Christopher J. Henrich	net.politics.arms

Also, note that three nukes people did not say that an arms subgroup would
be unacceptable or even worse than a nukes subgroup.  Therefore I think
that we should go ahead with net.politics.arms.

While, it's true that not that many people replied in favor, it's also true
that absolutely *no one* replied by mail against the creation of a
subgroup.  Only one dissenting opinion was posted, and that was by Mike
Williams (mike@erix).  Mr. Williams, however, was concerned with the fact
that Europe was about to be cut off from net.politics entirely; since he
lost that argument (i.e. net.politics is no longer on eunet), his
objections to net.politics.nukes/arms are now moot.

So I think it's high time we created net.politics.arms.  Those of you with
administrative powers on the net know who you are.  Please, someone, *create
this subgroup*!
-- 
			Greg Kuperberg
		     harvard!talcott!gjk

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