Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!jarthur!usc!wuarchive!rex!uflorida!haven!mimsy!saryu.cs.umd.edu!dheeraj From: dheeraj@saryu.cs.umd.edu (Dheeraj Sanghi) Newsgroups: news.groups Subject: Re: talk.politics.south-asia CALL FOR DISCUSSION Message-ID: <22659@mimsy.umd.edu> Date: 21 Feb 90 13:32:55 GMT References: Sender: news@mimsy.umd.edu Reply-To: dheeraj@saryu.cs.umd.edu (Dheeraj Sanghi) Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742 Lines: 26 In article sa1z+@andrew.cmu.edu (Sudheer Apte) writes: >FORMAL CALL FOR DISCUSSION: talk.politics.south-asia >Why a Separate Newsgroup? > >Also, the word "indian" in s.c.i.'s name have sometimes been >used to suppress postings by other nationals than Indian. This cannot >happen with the neutral name "south-asia." How about the name soc.culture.saarc or talk.politics.saarc. Saarc is South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation, whose members are Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bhutan and Maldives. This would be on the same lines as s.c.asean. In fact, I would suggest we have two newsgroups s.c.saarc and t.p.saarc. We can remove s.c.indian and s.c.sri-lanka and also not create s.c.pakistan. This way, we can take care of problem of too much politics in the s.c.i as well as not discourage non-Indian issues in s.c.i (for there will be no s.c.i). -dheeraj -- Dheeraj Sanghi (h):301-794-6247 (o):301-454-1516 Internet: dheeraj@cs.umd.edu UUCP: uunet!mimsy!dheeraj 1991 is the VISIT INDIA year