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From: jeffd@ficc.uu.net (jeff daiell)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: The "*" in "*.herpetology" (Re: A Hum Domain)
Summary: Hss domain
Keywords: It's a joke, I say a joke, son.
Message-ID: <_6R1SH7xds8@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 14 Feb 90 10:57:32 GMT
References: <3284@iitmax.IIT.EDU> <3285@iitmax.IIT.EDU> <10834@saturn.ADS.COM>
Organization: Ferranti International Controls Corporation
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In article <10834@saturn.ADS.COM>, xanthian@saturn.ADS.COM (Metafont Consultant Account) writes:
> 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"?
> 
> 
> 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!  ;-)


There's not a sibilance of truth in that.



Jeff


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