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From: unccab@calico.med.unc.edu (Charles Balan)
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Subject: Re: A Hum Domain (also: how about a hum charter?)
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Date: 14 Feb 90 20:50:25 GMT
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In article <1990Feb12.205140.1250@everexn.uucp> karen@everexn.uucp (Karen Valentino) writes:
>ka@cs.washington.edu (Kenneth Almquist) writes:
>So far, I like hss and hum the best of the proposed domain names.  Any 
>other ideas out there? 
 
 I *think* I saw someone suggest human.* for a new domain name.  I think
 that might be a slightly better name than hum.* and much better than
 hss.*  I tend to think like a new user and if I was searching through a
 domain and seeing hum.history I might tend to think it was MUSIC THROUGH
 THE AGES or something like that, although a logical thought process
 should make me realize that hum.* had something to do with humans.  I
 just think human.* will be a little more clear.  So what if it isnt as
 short as alt.*, rec.*, soc.*?  Don't we have clarinet.*?  
 I just think that more clarity is better than less clarity.

I'd also like to hear more from people about 
>their concerns about the complexities of starting up another domain.  It 
>may be that we should see if there's some kind of consensus for or against
>the process.  

 I am very much for this process!  I would hope it would include a
 not-so-great renaming so that a lot of nefarious groups could be, um,
 removed :) (of course, who am _I_ to suggest removing groups?)

One suggestion that I have is
>to have a "charter" for the hum domain, similar to the charters that 
>proposed newsgroups have.  It seems to me that something more than the
>one-phrase description we have currently to describe the top-level
>domains is very desirable. 

 A Charter for each domain would be great idea, so that we wouldn't have
 these arguments about -sci. vs. talk vs. soc., etc.

PS Happy Day, Valentine!




                            Charles Balan
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