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From: tjhorton@utai.UUCP (Timothy J. Horton)
Newsgroups: news.groups,comp.cog-eng,sci.bio,sci.misc,sci.research
Subject: Re: time for sci.psych???
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Date: 12 Jan 88 03:31:33 GMT
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Keywords: psychology newsgroup
Summary: maybe sci.cog.sci?

In article <1416@uhccux.UUCP> todd@uhccux.UUCP (The Perplexed Wiz) writes:
>It's been at least three or four years since I last saw an attempt to
>create a newsgroup devoted to psychology.

Has anyone else had difficulties sending mail to todd?  I certainly have.

If it's not sort of cognitive science he's trying to bundle together, it'll
attract all kinds of stuff about affect, and sociological adjustment, and
Rogers and Freud ... perhaps not particularly focussed, with too much potential
for floundering in philosophy.  There may be enough newsgroups swamped with
such discussions already, and sci.psychology might turn out to be the next
verbal battleground without referees.

I'm hoping, eventually, for a sci.cognitive or comp.cog.sci somewhere,
somewhen, somehow.  Apparently, a lot of people were upset about misuse of
comp.cog-eng, since it's supposed to be about cognitive factors engineering,
(ie. human factors topics), but people have continued to "misuse" it again.
Considering the kinds of material mentioned, should such a newsgroup have
"cognitive" somewhere in the title? (ie. "cog")]

A separate vote for sci.cog-sci?
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