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From: tma@osc.COM (Tim Atkins)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: talk, not sci, for *.philosophy.objectivism (was Re: SPO CHARTER)
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Date: 10 Feb 90 19:47:39 GMT
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Reply-To: tma@osc.UUCP (Tim Atkins)
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Why are we wasting all this time on where the Objectivist newsgroup should go?
The *most* important thing is to establish an Objectivist newsgroup.  As long
as the placement of the group is not an out-right insult as in 
talk-religion-objectivism  I see no good reason for such virorous debate on
whether it belongs in the sci category or not.  There are very strong arguments
on why it does not, in my opinion.  Namely that philosophy as such is not 
considered, by the original charter, to be part of what the hierarchy was set
up for.  I vote for talk.philosophy.objectivism for now.  At a later date the
fight for moving under the sci hierarchy may be tried again.  Doing so now
merely increases the likelihood of no Objectivist group at all.

- Tim