Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!tale From: tale@cs.rpi.edu (David C Lawrence) Newsgroups: news.groups Subject: Re: *% CALL FOR VOTES %* NEW GROUP - soc.culture.british Message-ID: Date: 28 Dec 89 20:23:04 GMT References: <8912181809.AA01062@ncar.ucar.EDU> <16364@megaron.cs.arizona.edu> Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY Lines: 32 In <16364@megaron.cs.arizona.edu> gln@cs.arizona.edu (GaRY NEwelL) writes: > I mean this group (s.c.celtic)is lucky to have a dozen articles a > week, and it already (at least in theory) deals with the Scottish > and Welsh. Never in the past has the fact that it is designed for > Celtic subjects prevented various folks from posting topics that > were clearly English and I doubt that these topics would suddenly > become off limits. > why not have a soc.culture.english instead?? Now that I would love > to vote for...... WoW! This hardly sounds like the Gary L Newell that flamed my butt when I dared to make a posting to that group about England. I would love to follow a group about the UK, as my mother is from Berkeley and I try to at least keep some of that heritage, but that "warm" reception and the seemingly never-ending articles about the IRA caused me to unsubscribe after only about a month of reading soc.culture.celtic. Granted, perhaps it was a bad month. I also don't remember too clearly what it was that I posted, but only that a few kind souls lept to my defense in reply to Gary. As I recall (this was, indeed, a couple of years ago -- the climate may have changed markedly) the basic tone of his article had been that English postings were unwelcome. Maybe it's time I gave the group another go. (This isn't a flame on Gary; I don't think I flamed him then either, though I might have. It just brings back some memories which make his article surprising to me.) Dave -- (setq mail '("tale@cs.rpi.edu" "tale@ai.mit.edu" "tale@rpitsmts.bitnet"))