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From: watson@halley.UUCP (William Watson)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: Call for Discussion:  rec.radio.misc
Summary: rec? soc?  misc?
Message-ID: <669@halley.UUCP>
Date: 14 Feb 90 05:35:19 GMT
Reply-To: watson@halley.UUCP (William Watson)
Organization: Tandem Computers, Austin, TX
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richard welty writes:
>i won't be in a position to call for the rec.radio.misc vote for
>two weeks, so there's plenty of time for the non-comm advocates
>to decide which way they want to go.

He later posts that he has been informed that a formal call for votes on
"rec.radio.non-comm" will be posted shortly.  Have we decided that this is
the proper name?  I'm afraid that I may have missed the discussion by which
the final name was agreed upon, as our gateway machine was ill for a few days.

I will certainly admit that this proposed name will fit better in the
existing heirarchies better than creating *.radio elsewhere than in
rec, but we have had discussion about non-comm being less than obvious,
and the desire to focus the group on the broadcasters, rather than the 
listeners.  It may be only my personal bias (or cudgeled brain), but it
seems to me that rec.radio.non-comm will be taken as a newsgroup for
discussions by listeners to non-commercial radio stations.  If indeed
rec.radio.misc also comes into being, as richard proposes (humble apologies
for misinterpreting your intentions, sir), then it seems to me that this
view will likely prevail.  I'm not particularly taken with the idea of
continual cries of "That discussion doesn't belong in this group!", and
suggest that the choice of a name may help.

How does misc.broadcasters sound?

If we cannot clear this within a week, it might seem that we should defer to
richard welty, and let him conduct his vote while we debate any remaining
issues.

Of course, if I'm wrong, tell me to shut up.

William

-- 
William J. Watson
(cs.utexas.edu!halley!watson, watson@halley.mpd.tandem.com, watson@halley.uucp)