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From: msb@sq.sq.com (Mark Brader)
Subject: Re: renewed Call for Discussion: rec.arts.cinema
Message-ID: <1990Jan5.062111.29517@sq.sq.com>
Summary: rec.arts.movies.serious
Reply-To: msb@sq.com (Mark Brader)
Organization: SoftQuad Inc., Toronto
References: <50326@bbn.COM>
Date: Fri, 5 Jan 90 06:21:11 GMT

> Several people have expressed approval for "rec.arts.cinema" as the
> name of the proposed "serious movie talk" group, and no one has
> expressed serious disapproval. Unless there are strong objections to
> this name, I suggest we go with it. 

I didn't think it was necessary to post before, because there were also
several articles mentioning what I thought was an obviously superior name:
rec.arts.movies.serious.  The reason I think it's superior is not that
.movies.serious is better than .cinema, but that I think this *clearly*
belongs as a subgroup of rec.arts.movies.  Anything else would be massively
confusing to anyone coming onto the net after the group is created.

Would you really want rec.humor.funny to have been created as, say,
rec.wit?  (All right, so wit is not an exact synonym of humor; it's close
enough for illustrative purposes.)

Frankly, I'd prefer to see rec.arts.movies converted to being moderated,
or to see the the low-value postings split out to rec.arts.movies.trivia
and the current-movie arguments to rec.arts.movies.current; but in practice
people wouldn't respect that, so that's a pipe dream.  As a next best thing,
then, let's leave the dross where it is and put the good stuff in a subgroup.

I'll vote for rec.arts.cinema if that's the only name offered, but I'd
much rather be voting for a rec.arts.movies subgroup.

If there are people who don't agree that this is obviously right,
then I suggest that the vote be of the STV type...

-- 
Mark Brader			"...out of the dark coffee-stained mugs of
SoftQuad Inc., Toronto	         insane programmers throughout the world..."
utzoo!sq!msb, msb@sq.com				-- Lee R. Quin

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