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From: webber@aramis.rutgers.edu.UUCP
Newsgroups: alt.config
Subject: Re: Creation of alt.cyberpunk (was: Re: newsgroup creation policies..)
Message-ID: <1593@aramis.rutgers.edu>
Date: Fri, 18-Sep-87 22:12:42 EDT
Article-I.D.: aramis.1593
Posted: Fri Sep 18 22:12:42 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 20-Sep-87 07:49:14 EDT
References: <1987Aug24.140756.8062@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu> <13890@amdahl.amdahl.com> <1553@killer.UUCP>
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
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Summary: doesn't seem warranted to me.

In article <1553@killer.UUCP>, billw@killer.UUCP (Bill Wisner) writes:
> >>Fine.  I hearby create: alt.CyberPunk
> >   Could I persuade you to call it "alt.cyberpunk" or "alt.cyber-punk".
> >The uppercase letters are going to cause real problems in certain 
> >backwater corners of the network software.
> Could *I* persuade you to call it "alt.sf.cyberpunk"? Putting the sf in
> will allow for better altnet organization later. Besides, you will then
> be able to claim the honor of creating the first alt group with a three
> level name.

If cyberpunk were only a style of science fiction, I would agree.  However,
I see that as too limiting.  Cyberpunk is actually a vision of how people 
and computers interact.  Should discussion in alt.cyberpunk warrant it, 
I would be happy to announce subgroups:
              alt.cyberpunk.mirrorshades
              alt.cyberpunk.symbiosis
              alt.cyberpunk.hardware
              alt.cyberpunk.software
              alt.cyberpunk.wetware
              alt.cyberpunk.video
              alt.cyberpunk.rec
              alt.cyberpunk.security
              alt.cyberpunk.refs
              alt.cyberpunk.announce
But at least for the next few months, alt.cyberpunk should be sufficient.
Indeed, even after the subgroups become necessary, it will still be useful 
to have a place for discussions that would otherwise be crossposted
heavily as well as being a sensible place for alt.cyberpunk.misc
postings to go.

Does this make sense to you or do you think there is something I have
still overlooked?  Incidently, if the current sf-lovers breakup being
discussed in the rec.* groups were to actually fall through over there
and transfer over to alt.*, I don't forsee any major problems.  If
crossposting becomes annoying in either, say alt.cyberpunk or alt.sf.books,
it would just hasten the creation of alt.cyberpunk.mirrorshades.

--- BOB (webber@aramis.rutgers.edu ; rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!webber)