Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!ucsd!ucbvax!hoptoad!tim From: tim@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Maroney) Newsgroups: news.groups Subject: Re: CALL FOR DISCUSSION: sci.psycoloquy.moderated Message-ID: <10036@hoptoad.uucp> Date: 4 Feb 90 02:34:58 GMT References: <9001260336.AA12354@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> <1990Jan28.040113.3174@chinet.chi.il.us> <13379@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> <9917@hoptoad.uucp> <34403@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> <1990Feb2.142738.20168@sci.ccny.cuny.edu> Reply-To: tim@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Maroney) Organization: Eclectic Software, San Francisco Lines: 33 In article peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes: >sci.psychology.digest Topics related to psychology. (Moderated) > >And the mailing-list side can keep the amusing play on words, PSYCOLOQUY. In article <1990Feb2.142738.20168@sci.ccny.cuny.edu> dan@sci.ccny.cuny.edu (Dan Schlitt) writes: >I agree that this is a good name for the group on the net. We don't >need additional amusement. For that we have news.groups. So, I believe that makes six people who have objected to the absurd name "sci.psycoloquy.moderated", and no one has said they liked it except the person who proposed it, the would-be moderator, Steven Harnad. However, Harnad has not responded at all on the naming issue. It is anything but a positive sign when a would-be moderator refuses to discuss the concerns of his readership. I am shifting towards opposition to Harnad as a moderator because of this. In any case, the moderator of news.announce.newsgroups should reject any call for votes on sci.psycoloquy.moderated, since the discussion period must establish consensus on naming, and the consensus is decidedly against sci.psycoloquy.moderated. I expect Harnad will go ahead and try to post a call for votes for his preferred name despite its unpopularity; this would be an attempt to circumvent the prescribed newsgroup creation process and should not be cooperated with. -- Tim Maroney, Mac Software Consultant, sun!hoptoad!tim, tim@toad.com FROM THE FOOL FILE: "Women's wages are 56% of men's -- but that's not necessarily evidence of discrimination in employment." -- Clayton Cramer in news.groups and soc.women