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From: hijab@cad.UUCP (Raif Hijab)
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Subject: Re: How about a temporary net.libya?
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Date: Thu, 15-May-86 13:25:56 EDT
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Summary: How About A Solution on the European Net?

In article <940@kuling.UUCP>, andersa@kuling.UUCP (Anders Andersson) writes:
> I don't think it matters how "important" an issue is. Even if the entire
> user community agreed on the importance of the Libyan air raid, what's
> wrong with important discussions in net.politics (or any other newsgroup
> covering the more precise subject)? The "considerable interest to many
> net.people" should be compared to the non-interest of all the others.
> ........................
> Thus, anything recognizable as belonging to a specific area of interest
> should be put in the proper newsgroup, and not in net.general. People
> interested in the subject may easily continue the discussion there (with
> the exception for non-worldwide newsgroups, but that's another problem).
The proper newsgroup is net.politics. or an appropriate derivative.
The problem is the unavailability of net.politics on the European net.
Either net.politics ought to be made available in Europe, or an
appropriately defined group be created worldwide. Net.politics.libya
or net.politics.terror are NOT appropriate derivatives for two reasons:
(1) The nature of the discussion is such that many issues are intertwined
(2) The label "terror" would appear to confine the discussion or worse,
placing in that category issues which do not properly belong there.