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From: davidbe@sco.COM (The Cat in the Hat)
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Subject: Re: CALL FOR VOTES: talk.lists
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Date: 10 Jan 90 20:16:02 GMT
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She said that he said that she said that dveditz@dbase.A-T.com (Dan Veditz) said:
-I missed the discussion, so I'll stick in my tuppence now:
-
-1. This group will not divert any significant amount of traffic from the 
-   groups that are currently bothered by them.  It will, however, make
-   a good crossposting magnet.

Actually, I think while there may be some initial crossposting, once the
group gets going, people will start saying "Take it to talk.lists" and 
not crosspost.  This may be a bit optomistic, but stranger things have
happened.

-2. This group is out of place as a "talk" group -- misc.lists would be a 
-   much better name.  (I realize you can't change the name during the vote 
-   without causing apoplectic spasms in all net.police.self-appointed,
-   but next time give it a thought.)

I considered misc.lists for a while, but feel that it would have the wrong
flavor in the misc.* hierarchy.  I see talk being for groups "full of sound
and fury signifying nothing."  The politics groups are an example of this.
Misc, on the other hand is more informative, less inflamatory.  You rarely
see flame wars in the *.jobs.* groups.  

I just didn't think collections of various lists was lofty enough for the
misc hierarchy.  And, anyway, misc.lists doesn't roll off my tongue as 
nicely as talk.lists does, either. :-)

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