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From: hijab@cad.UUCP (Raif Hijab)
Newsgroups: net.followup,net.politics,net.news.group
Subject: Re: How about a temporary net.libya?
Message-ID: <318@cad.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 12-May-86 00:18:50 EDT
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Posted: Mon May 12 00:18:50 1986
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Summary: How Does One Define the Boundaries of Discussion?

In article <2343@phri.UUCP>, roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) writes:
> 
> 	I suggested forming temp.libya, Mark Horton thought it was a good
> idea and proposed making it net.politics.terror, somebody else jumped the
> gun and sent out a newgroup message for n.p.t, and then...
> 
> In article <311@cad.UUCP> hijab@cad.UUCP (Raif Hijab) writes:
> > I do not think it is right to try to deligitimize the discussion
> 
> 	Who said anything about "deligitimizing" the discussion?  Just give
> it it's own group.  If anything, that lends a certain air of legitimacy 

Those who *have* been following the discussion on Libya will recognize
that it branched into the Israeli-Palestinian problem, the relations
with NATO allies, gun control, the rationality of U.S. foreign policy,
international law, U.S. media coverage of international events, encrypted
messages and Nazism, to mention a few topics. The discussion digressed
and came back, as all of these are inter-related issues. How does one
define the boundaries of the discussion? When is it a discussion of
Libya and when is it not? When is it a discussion of terror and when
is it not? These are all political issues. It seems to me those who
have an aversion to them (and are loath to hit the "n" key) should
either not read net.politics, or start their own circumscribed group.

For whatever it is worth, that is my opinion.