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From: peterd@opus.cs.mcgill.ca (Peter Deutsch)
Newsgroups: news.groups,rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: preliminary call for disussion: rec.arts.movies subgroups
Summary: A rose by any other name . . .
Message-ID: <1814@opus.cs.mcgill.ca>
Date: 27 Dec 89 22:49:14 GMT
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In article <50113@bbn.COM>, rshapiro@bbn.com (Richard Shapiro) writes:
> In article <496.25976370@devsim.mdcbbs.com> jmi@devsim.mdcbbs.com ((JM Ivler) MDC - Douglas Aircraft Co. Long Beach, CA.) writes:
> >I would like to see another name besides .classic, but I am at a loss of what to 
> >call it... perhaps .vault as in 'film vault' the place that films go when out 
> >of first and second run. The .classic conotation seems to me to be a breeding 
> >ground for discontent as what is a classic to some people (for instance WHIFFS 
> >a rather lame movie with Eddie Albert) is trash to others.
> 
> Yes, "classic" does have this problem. How about "classical", as in
> "classical Hollywood style"? This denotes only a specific way of
> making movies and says nothing about relative merits. . .  . 

Hmmm, I would suggest either rec.arts.movies.past or .historical.

Why? I think both .classic and .classical have the same
problem and .vault is probably a little obscure. How about
a contest to name it? (a couple of smileys here).

			- peterd


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