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From: xanthian@saturn.ADS.COM (Metafont Consultant Account)
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Subject: The "*" in "*.herpetology" (Re: A Hum Domain)
Summary: another top-level placement problem pending
Keywords: It's a joke, I say a joke, son.
Message-ID: <10834@saturn.ADS.COM>
Date: 13 Feb 90 12:16:04 GMT
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In article <7482@yunexus.UUCP> gall@yunexus.UUCP (Norm Gall) writes:
>ka@cs.washington.edu (Kenneth Almquist) writes:

>| Subjects like anthropology are usually referred to as social sciences
>| rather than as humanities.  So how about "hss", short for "humanities
>| and social sciences"?

>This is a good idea.....

>now let's stop talking about it and _do_ it......

OK, so now where do I put the up-and-coming herpetology mid-level news
group?  Do I place it by the sound of the top-level name, or by its
intended meaning of the top-level meaning?

Anyway, hss.herpetology.snakes sure sounds good to me!  ;-)
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