Xref: utzoo soc.culture.indian:23734 news.groups:17694 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!pt.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!sa1z+ From: sa1z+@andrew.cmu.edu (Sudheer Apte) Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian,news.groups Subject: Re: soc.culture.pakistan Message-ID: Date: 13 Feb 90 03:20:19 GMT References: <35260@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> <36050248@hpindda.HP.COM>, <110294@ti-csl.csc.ti.com> Organization: Civil Engineering, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 34 In-Reply-To: <110294@ti-csl.csc.ti.com> araja@m2.csc.ti.com (Ali Raja) writes: > [...] if [...] anyone [...] is willing to make an official call > for discussion on the creation of soc.culture..news > and soc.culture..debate/tirade, I will extend my > wholehearted support to this proposal, and withdraw my current one. > It is quite definitely a preferable option to a Partition of > soc.culture.indian. This is a reasonable proposal. There is much merit to having a separate "news" group anyway---we're all sick of wading through the usual flamefest searching for news from back home. About the neutral name, what suggestions do people have? I notice that soc.culture.indian is unlike the other soc.culture groups named after nations, in that the word "indian," not "india," has been used. Is this only an adjectival form (a la the non-nation groups like soc.culture.jewish), or is it supposed to refer to the Subcontinent? I suspect it's the latter, but then I wasn't around when the group was named. Any old hands remember? Isn't "indian" neutral enough then, if we write up a monthly posting making this clear, or something? One minor problem with the name "indian" is that non-desis tend to think it's about native American culture :-) I still like it, though, if only because I can't think of another name that can keep us together. Sudheer. ------------------------ P.S.: Strictly speaking this whole discussion should remain in news.groups, but I understand the original call "allowed" people to use s.c.i. as well, so I'm not changing the Followups-To: field. -- ...{harvard, uunet}!andrew.cmu.edu!sa1z sa1z%andrew@CMCCVB.BITNET