Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ukma!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!bu-cs!tower From: tower@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Leonard H. Tower Jr.) Newsgroups: gnu.config Subject: Re: gnu.politics? Message-ID: <32481@bu-cs.BU.EDU> Date: 7 Jun 89 21:00:35 GMT References: Reply-To: tower@wheaties.ai.mit.edu Followup-To: gnu.config Distribution: gnu Organization: Information Technology, Boston University, 111 Cummington Street, Boston, MA 02215, USA +1 (617) 353-2780 Lines: 29 X-Home: 36 Porter Street, Somerville, MA 02143, USA +1 (617) 623-7739 X-UUCP-Path: ..!harvard!bu-cs!tower In article tale@pawl.rpi.edu writes: |I don't really know what to name it, but can we get a non-tech group |into the gnu hierarchy which would be suitable for general discussion |about the FSF and the GNU Project? This is being discussed already and is likely to happen. The actual creation may wait until after Baltimore USENIX. If you have thoughts about any of the following, please send me mail (posting here is just a waste of bandwidth). Prefer tower@wheaties.ai.mit.edu but tower@bu-it.bu.edu or bu-cs!tower will do. * What should the name be? We have a half dozen candidates already, but as I don't wish to stifle creativity, I won't list them. Ideally a name won't carry bad manners with it from the larger USENET. gnu.flame, gnu.talk, gnu.politics, and gnu.philosophy all fail this test. * Should the group be in the alt heirarchy? Why? Why not? * A volunteer is needed to run the mailing list. An NSF/DoD Internet site not on the MILNET is preferred. A volunteer who already runs a large mailing list is preferred (most of the addresses will be off the Internet and knowledge of the gateways and remoter parts of the Matrix will be essential). thanx -len a.k.a. tower@wheaties.ai.mit.edu