Xref: utzoo news.groups:18118 soc.culture.misc:1343 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!bellcore!rruxh!monnie From: monnie@rruxh.UUCP (Nariman Shambayati) Newsgroups: news.groups,soc.culture.misc Subject: Re: Formal Call for Discussion: Formation of soc.culture.iranian Message-ID: Date: 23 Feb 90 05:22:16 GMT Sender: news@bellcore.bellcore.com Distribution: usa Organization: Bell Communications Research (Bellcore) Lines: 15 troly@redwood.math.ucla.edu (Bret Jolly) writes: >The charter to this proposed group should direct purely political >discussions to talk.politics.mideast. This is what currently limits >the flamage in soc.culture.arabic. I disagree. The volume in talk.politics.mideast is too much to handle. Besides, many aspects of Iranian politics is not related directly to the middle east. I strongly feel that soc.culture.iranian should include politics of Iran in its charter. Politics is as much a part of our life and culture as the other facets suggested in the call for vote from Mr. Hematt. -- ....bellcore!rruxh!monnie or rruxh!monnie@thumper.bellcore.com