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From: dorai@titan.rice.edu (Dorai Sitaram)
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Subject: Re: CALL FOR DISCUSSION: soc.culture.german
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Date: 14 Feb 90 22:33:42 GMT
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In article <241@verdix.verdix.com> bob@verdix.com (Bob Boulanger) writes:
>                   Formal call for discussion
>                   ==========================
>
> This is the 1st call for discussion for the creation of a German
> soc.culture newsgroup.
> The proposed newsgroup, unmoderated soc.culture.german, is intended
> to generally provide a medium for those interested to express and share
> their views and feelings about *things* (normally discussed in soc.culture
> newsgroups) related to Germany and Germans. 
> The discussion period will last for 2 weeks from today.  
> Comments and discussions are welcome provided they are also posted to 
> news.groups newsgroup.

Hi Bob.  I'm still voting YES. :-)

However, I don't see the formal call come out in
news.announce.newgroups.  (Is it "technical" delay?)  I know that a
newsgroup can be denied creation if the call for it hadn't appeared in
n.a.n.  (Someone's been there before!)

Also, you could crosspost the call in a broad range of soc.culture.*
and politics groups, and sci.lang too.  Somebody on news.groups stated
it doesn't cost extra money to crosspost, and I believe hir!  And
people won't bite your head off if you crosspost _this_ kind of
message.  After all, you want to reach a wide audience of potentially
interested voters.

As once pointed out by Diane Bracken, the charter needn't restrict
itself to discussions about "*things* (what be "*things*" anyway,
something like, oh I don't know, Dampfeisenbahnbrueckenarbeitergewerk-
schaftsfuehrersgroessenwahnsinnigkeit or what? :-]) related to Germany
and Germans."  I mean, of course, the inclusion of Switzerland,
Austria and the several pockets of Deutschsprechende in the heart of
Europe.  Perhaps this expansion of interest will naturally happen
anyway[s].

--dorai
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