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From: jon@lindy.Stanford.EDU (Jon Corelis)
Newsgroups: news.groups,rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: renewed Call for Discussion: rec.arts.cinema
Keywords: the preferred name
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Date: 4 Jan 90 04:27:09 GMT
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In article <50326@bbn.COM> rshapiro@bbn.com (Richard Shapiro) writes:
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>REC.ARTS.CINEMA
>
>A moderated group for the serious discussion of movies. Any movie,
>regardless of its artistic stature, is fair game for discussion, as is
>any substantive approach to the subject. Explicitly *excluded* from
>this group are the following: [. . .] 
>
   
   I like the charter, but I'd suggest a slight revision as follows:

   "A moderated group for the serious discussion of cinema.  Any film,
    regardless of its genre, is fair game for discussion . . ."

   I think the use of the words "cinema" and "film," rather than
"movies," would reinforce the seriousness of the group and its
independence from rec.arts.movies.  And the use of "genre" instead of
"artistic stature" would make the same point without raising a
potentially contentious value judgement.
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Jon Corelis               jon@lindy.stanford.edu
Stanford University       BITNET:  XB.E70@FORSYTHE.STANFORD.EDU