Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!netsys!vector!telecom-gateway From: rv01@gte.com (Robert Virzi) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: sci.commtech: Call 4 votes on news.groups Message-ID: Date: 9 Jun 89 12:53:03 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Reply-To: Robert Virzi Organization: GTE Laboratories, Waltham, MA Lines: 25 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 192, message 9 of 9 Chip Rosenthal writes this concerning the call for votes on sci.commtech: > I strongly urge all comp.dcom.telecom readers to vote "no". > The sci.commtech newsgroup is supposed to talk about new communications > technology. The proposer lists "telecommunications technologies (including > fiber optics and ISDN [...])" as examples in his referenced message. No offense to Chip, but this is wrong! The group is forming to discuss the *social implications* of new technologies, not the technologies themselves. I anticipate debates related to topics such as: How will ISDN affect the way businesses deal with customers?, What new services will fill BISDN bandwidth and how will they affect us?, Is there new educational potential in HDTV? etc. The purpose of the group is to segregate discussions of "what" new technologies are from "why" they may affect us or the society. I urge you to vote YES for sci.commtech as it provides a unique forum for discussions relating to technology and how it affect us! -- -Bob Virzi | Innuendo ... rv01@gte.com | ...!harvard!bunny!rv01 | ... and out the other.