Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!seismo!ukma!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!pt.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!sa1z+ From: sa1z+@andrew.cmu.edu (Sudheer Apte) Newsgroups: news.groups Subject: Re: talk.politics.south-asia CALL FOR DISCUSSION Message-ID: Date: 21 Feb 90 20:20:32 GMT References: , <22659@mimsy.umd.edu> Organization: Civil Engineering, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 28 In-Reply-To: <22659@mimsy.umd.edu> dheeraj@saryu.cs.umd.edu (Dheeraj Sanghi) writes: > 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. Sounds good to me. Anyone have problems with "talk.politics.saarc"? We can easily make this the name of the newsgroup. > 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). I wish we could do this, but I doubt if the s.c.i and s.c.s-l-ers will take such a suggestion very well. Any comments? Also, soc.culture.saarc sounds a little bogus, because SAARC is a political association, having nothing to do with culture (isn't it?) This is why I hadn't liked s.c.asean either. But I'm still open. Thanks for the input, Dheeraj. Is anyone listening, or are we talking amongst ourselves?! Sudheer. ----------------- ...{harvard, uunet}!andrew.cmu.edu!sa1z sa1z%andrew@CMCCVB.BITNET