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From: weemba@brahms.BERKELEY.EDU (Matthew P. Wiener)
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: Re: "new group..."
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Date: Fri, 21-Mar-86 08:07:19 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar 21 08:07:19 1986
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>>>This is a formal request for a creation of something along the lines of
>>>"net.psi" to handle discussions of occult or parapsychological content.
>>>I am a serious student of this field, and am interested in discussing this
>>        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^         ^^^^^
>>Look , another oxymoron!
>>>Whenever it shows up on net.sci  (almost without exception) it is flamed.
>>                         ^^^^^^^
>>Or on net.physics, or net.med, or anywhere that is viewed by rational people.
>
>   Geez! Give this guy a break. We already have net.origins. Net.psi seems
>a lot more sensible to me.

If a topic can only get flamed when it shows up in the standard newsgroups,
it clearly deserves its own separate newsgroup.  Of course, I'm sure >>
above would subscribe to it so he could continue to flame the topic, but
at least the heat would be localized.

ucbvax!brahms!weemba	Matthew P Wiener/UCB Math Dept/Berkeley CA 94720