Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!siddarth From: siddarth@cs.utexas.edu (Siddarth Subramanian) Newsgroups: news.groups Subject: Re: talk.politics.south-asia CALL FOR DISCUSSION Message-ID: <675@ai.cs.utexas.edu> Date: 21 Feb 90 21:23:38 GMT References: <22659@mimsy.umd.edu> Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas Lines: 45 In article sa1z+@andrew.cmu.edu (Sudheer Apte) writes: >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"? My problem with the name saarc is that it is a political association. Now, for example, if Pakistan leaves saarc, would the charter of the group be similarly restricted ? What's wrong with the original suggestion with south-asia being defined as the current members of saarc (with maybe Tibet thrown in). I think using the name of a political association in the name of a newsgroup is not a good idea. >> 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? The suggestion sounds good except that as you point out there will be too much resistance to it. I think a lot of the people who decry non-Indian postings on s.c.i. are going to be the ones who will insist on a Pakistani-free Sri-lankan-free s.c.i. >... are we talking among ourselves ? I'm here, but I suspect most s.c.i'ers don't subscribe to news.groups. If you want more input, cross-post. -- SIDDARTH SUBRAMANIAN siddarth@cs.utexas.edu