Xref: utzoo comp.ai:5885 sci.psychology:2553 sci.bio:2692 comp.cog-eng:1564 sci.lang:5828 sci.philosophy.tech:2051 sci.research:1163 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!uupsi!njin!princeton!phoenix!harnad From: harnad@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Stevan Harnad) Newsgroups: comp.ai,sci.psychology,sci.bio,comp.cog-eng,sci.lang,sci.philosophy.tech,sci.research Subject: sci.psychology.moderated: CALL FOR VOTES Keywords: Bitnet -------> Usenet Message-ID: <13651@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> Date: 7 Feb 90 03:54:42 GMT Followup-To: poster Organization: Princeton University, NJ Lines: 111 CALL FOR VOTES for the creation of a moderated Usenet group out of the already existing Bitnet Psychology Newsletter, PSYCOLOQY, which currently has 1400 Bitnet subscribers. The objective is to make this group more widely available to the world psychology community through Usenet. VOTING PERIOD: February 7 - March 9. Please send a YES or NO vote, **worded as described below,** to harnad@phoenix.princeton.edu, *not* to this group as a whole. The "r" option in rn is one way to get your vote to the right destination. The group will be co-moderated by Stevan Harnad, Department of Psychology, Princeton University and Perry London, Dean of the Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology, Rutgers University, assisted by Cary Cherniss and an editorial board for all the subspecialties of psychology, including perception, cognition, development, psycholinguistics, physiological psychology, behavioral analysis, social psychology, personality, clinical psychology and applied psychology. Contents will include both the usual bboard materials (meetings, tech report abstracts, notices, journal contents) and moderated discussions of current topics in all areas of psychology. The latter kind of contribution will be especially encouraged and all discussion will be kept at an informed scholarly level, to demonstrate the enormous (and as yet unexplored) intellectual potential of such an electronic forum. The group will be sponsored on an experimental basis by the Science Directorate of the American Psychological Association and an effort will be made to ensure that all psychologists and representatives of related fields have access and the opportunity to participate actively. Because there is already an UNmoderated Usenet psychology group (sci.psychology) and because the Bitnet group's name (PSYCOLOQUY) does not match well with the Usenet nomenclature, the group can be called either: sci.psychology.moderated or sci.psychology.org or sci.psychology.digest or scu.psychology.psycoloquy If any of these four names would be ok with you, just vote: I vote YES for sci.psychology... (MODERATED) If your vote is conditional on one of these names, please specify which, e.g.: I vote YES for sci.psychology.digest etc. If your vote is negative, all options are voted against with: I vote NO against sci.psychology... (MODERATED) Please keep your message simple and unambiguous. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Three relevant excerpts from the discussion follow: ----- From: Todd Ogasawara Organization: University of Hawaii [Founder of sci.psychology (UNmoderated] Having watched the USENET sci.psychology degenerate since I created the group, I will be more than happy to vote for a sci.psychology.moderated to sit next to it when you request votes...todd ------- From: peter%ficc@uunet.UU.NET (Peter da Silva) Welcome (eventually) to the net. I think that you will find the ".moderated" suffix redundant, and the "psycoloquy" part is likely to cause confusion. I would like to offer a suggestion: sci.org.psycoloquy As a .org group, it will be immediately obvious that the name is a proper noun: the name of an organisation. There will be no confusion with any nascent "sci.psychology" group, and people will be less likely to typo the name. ----- >From: mehl@cs.iastate.edu (Mark M Mehl) If the name "psycoloquy" is so appealing to everyone, simply call it sci.psychology.psycoloquy so news-reader programs simply have to look for sci.psychology.* to get both groups. If the proposed group is to be a newsletter (as the charter suggests), then a group name such as sci.psychology.digest would be most descriptive of its contents. In order for any Usenet group to attract the targeted audience it wants, the name "must" be thoughtfully selected. The suffix *.digest in Usenet generally suggests a moderated group (although it doesn't have to be) that posts a brief newsletter. If one want to call it sci.psychology.mag, that might be a second best choice. --------------------------------------------------------- -- Stevan Harnad Department of Psychology Princeton University harnad@clarity.princeton.edu srh@flash.bellcore.com harnad@elbereth.rutgers.edu harnad@pucc.bitnet (609)-921-7771