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From: tim@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Maroney)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: CALL FOR DISCUSSION: soc.religion.eastern
Message-ID: <9575@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: 9 Jan 90 15:39:27 GMT
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Reply-To: tim@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Maroney)
Organization: Eclectic Software, San Francisco
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It's a good idea, except that for orthogonality it should be a talk
group.  If it were to be a soc group, then it would be
soc.culture.eastern, which is not really what you're aiming for.  Given
the combination of internationalism of the net, Asians living in the
West, and the Western interest in Eastern religion, the group should
find a broad base of interest.

Given the explicit requirement of non-political messages, this is
really not appropriate for soc, but it should be fine for talk.

(But how come you forgot to mention Taoism?)
-- 
Tim Maroney, Mac Software Consultant, sun!hoptoad!tim, tim@toad.com

"He goes on about the wailing and gnashing of teeth.  It comes in one
 verse after another, and it is quite manifest to the reader that there
 is a certain pleasure in contemplating the wailing and gnashing of
 teeth, or else it would not occur so often."
	-- Bertrand Russell, "Why I Am Not a Christian"