Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!apple!sun-barr!newstop!texsun!texbell!sugar!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: news.groups Subject: Re: Creating arts.* tech.* sci.eng.* (was Re: micro.*???) Keywords: sci.* and new hierarchies and groups Message-ID: Date: 6 Feb 90 03:22:58 GMT References: <3284@iitmax.IIT.EDU> <3285@iitmax.IIT.EDU> <9442@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> <7346@tank.uchicago.edu> <1990Feb1.005817.1786@everexn.uucp> <38268@apple.Apple.COM> <511@dino.cs.iastate.edu> Reply-To: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 17 In article <511@dino.cs.iastate.edu> mehl@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu writes: > peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes: > >Well, how about splitting off two new hierarchies? > > arts.* Arts and Humanities. > > tech.* Technology and Engineering (excluding computers). > >Then we can mass-move some groups out of sci. > We already have a rec.arts.* hierarchy. Do we really need another? The "arts" here refers to "arts and letters", rather than "fine art" or "popular art". > Were you planning on dumping the rec.arts.* hierarchy if an arts.* > hierarchy was started? No. Arts as recreation and humanities are seperate concepts. -- _--_|\ Peter da Silva. +1 713 274 5180. . / \ \_.--._/ Xenix Support -- it's not just a job, it's an adventure! v "Have you hugged your wolf today?" `-_-'