Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cica!iuvax!rutgers!att!cbnewsj!ecl From: ecl@cbnewsj.ATT.COM (Evelyn C. Leeper) Newsgroups: news.groups Subject: Re: preliminary call for disussion: rec.arts.movies subgroups Message-ID: <2990@cbnewsj.ATT.COM> Date: 22 Dec 89 02:34:54 GMT References: <49987@bbn.COM> Reply-To: ecl@cbnewsj.ATT.COM (Evelyn C. Leeper) Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 23 In article <49987@bbn.COM> Richard Shapiro writes: > As a movie lover who's found it necessary to unsubscribe to > rec.arts.movies, I'd like to gauge Net opinion about spinning off one > (or more) subgroups. [description of rec.arts.movies.classic deleted] > > Is there any interest in such a group? How about a different subgroup? > I just want to have a usable forum for talking about cinema in a more > serious and more historical way than is possible on r.a.m. Any such > forum is better than none at all. I feel obliged to point out that there is already one subgroup, rec.arts.movies.reviews, which is moderated and attempts to extract useful articles, not just of film reviews, but also film festival descriptions, book reviews, observations on the state of cinema, etc. It's true that discussion is redirected to r.a.m., but a substantial response to an article in r.a.m.r. would probably also get reposted to r.a.m.r. As you might have guessed, I am the moderator.... Evelyn C. Leeper | +1 201-957-2070 | att!mtgzy!ecl or ecl@mtgzy.att.com -- If I am not for myself, who is for me? If I am only for myself what am I? And if not now, when? --Hillel