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From: edhall@rand.org (Ed Hall)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: Call for Discussion:  rec.radio.misc
Keywords: mailing list
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Date: 6 Feb 90 18:29:54 GMT
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Rec.radio.misc is a wonderful idea.  Some of the alternative suggestions
are not, though.

I think it is a misappropriation of net resources to create a group
which can only benefit a select few, such as a group oriented towards
radio broadcasters.  It makes little difference whether commercial or
non-commercial radio is concerned.  It would be the same as restricting
misc.legal to lawyers, sci.med to doctors, or comp.sys.ibm.pc to
computer dealers and manufacturers.  Even though lawyers, doctors,
and dealers/manufacturers contribute to the latter lists, so do a large
number of others who consume their services.

Ideally, a radio group could serve as a way for radio listeners and
broadcasters to communicate with each other as well as themselves.  That
is the sort of thing a public resource like USENET is best suited for.

Some USENET subjects may be arcane, and of interest only to a few, but
all people who wish to participate should be welcome.  If someone wants
only to communicate within their own select group, they should set up a
mailing list.  There are hundreds (probably thousands) of lists already,
with memberships from ten to ten thousand.

		-Ed Hall
		edhall@rand.org