Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!think!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!tale From: tale@cs.rpi.edu (David C Lawrence) Newsgroups: news.groups Subject: Re: CALL FOR DISCUSSION: rec.arts.erotica Message-ID: Date: 28 Dec 89 05:09:40 GMT References: <2592700B.3216@telly.on.ca> <8912230929.AA06191@cunixd.cc.columbia.edu> Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY Lines: 34 In <8912230929.AA06191@cunixd.cc.columbia.edu> gld@CUNIXD.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU (Gary L Dare) writes: > If people can submit prose to alt.prose and movie reviews to > Rec.arts.movies, why not amateur erotica? No reason; they already do to alt.sex and could cross-post to alt.prose with perhaps only some bickering from the handful of people that like to bicker about, in alt.prose.d, many of the things posted to alt.prose including several stories from talk.bizarre that didn't happen to meet _their_ definition of prose. I am not 100% sure what your question means. In the USENET and altnet as a whole, no one is preventing anyone[1] from posting erotica, lack of rec.arts.erotica notwithstanding. If this group proposal fails, that situation will almost certain remain the same, or perhaps someone will finally make alt.sex.stories which gets suggested every couple of months. This latter group is indeed what I would suggest for the discussion forum, but it has its own special problems with how it could possibly be perceived differently from rec.arts.erotica concerning the merit of the stories. I don't fully understand this (or just about anything dealing with society, hang-ups and general perceptions of sex -- from where I sit it looks like an endless stream of irrational contradictions and confusion) so I won't get involved in that part of the argument. [1] There are of course probably numerous counter-examples in microcosms around the net representing everything from people preventing themselves to sites not getting the groups or their preventing any posting at all. The creation of rec.arts.erotica would probably not significantly change these examples, though. Dave -- (setq mail '("tale@cs.rpi.edu" "tale@ai.mit.edu" "tale@rpitsmts.bitnet"))