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From: dattier@jolnet.ORPK.IL.US (David W. Tamkin)
Newsgroups: news.groups,news.misc
Subject: Re: DISCUSSION: Formation of soc.obit
Summary: another place for it
Keywords: death notices obituaries
Message-ID: <333@jolnet.ORPK.IL.US>
Date: 23 Mar 89 16:53:48 GMT
References: <2972@eos.UUCP>
Reply-To: dattier@jolnet.ORPK.IL.US (David W. Tamkin)
Followup-To: news.groups
Organization: Jolnet Public Access Unix
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Eugene Miya wrote in <2972@eos.UUCP> in news.groups and news.misc:

| Sorry to interrupt people's bashing of international network stars
| (well Brad did make the SJ Merc).  But I have kind of a sober
| proposal for a new news group.
| 
| [proposal of soc.obit]

A lot of people might find setting aside a separate newsgroup a bit morbid.
When a net.personality passes away, a short article to soc.net-people, a
group that already exists, would be appropriate.  Since computers and cats
are not net-PEOPLE (some of you may think of your cats as people, but they
don't use the net), there would be less chance of the problems Eugene
foresees (of obituaries for cats and computers).

Readers of soc.net-people who do not wish to see obituaries can skip or
auto-kill by subject or keyword.  Readers of soc.net-people who wish to see
ONLY the obituaries can kill all articles and revive obituaries by subject
or keyword.  The volume in soc.net-people and the expected volume of
obituary postings are light enough that the two could co-exist in a single
group.

I propose posting death notices to soc.net-people instead of creating a
separate group.  Memorial tributes can go to rec.arts.poetry or alt.prose
or in some cases to the group where the departed was known best.

Follow-ups are directed to news.groups.  (Yes, I can do that now!  It's so
good to be off Portal!)

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