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From: demodsb@iitmax.IIT.EDU (David Bombardier)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: SCI.PHILOSOPHY.OBJECTIVISM
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Date: 29 Jan 90 06:46:04 GMT
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Reply-To: demodsb@iitmax.iit.edu (David Bombardier)
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A postscript to my posting:

I said that relegating a newsgroup devoted to a serious, technical philosophy
to the talk hierarchy was an injustice.  I did not realize how much of an
injustice this would be until I took a look at what newsgroups are in the talk
hierarchy.  Here is the list.  (Remember that the sci hierarchy includes
fields in the humanities and social sciences.)

     talk.abortion
     talk.bizarre
     talk.origins
     talk.philosophy.misc
     talk.politics.guns
     talk.politics.mideast
     talk.politics.misc
     talk.politics.soviet
     talk.politics.theory
     talk.rape
     talk.religion.misc
     talk.religion.newage
     talk.rumors

It doesn't matter what your view is concerning Objectivism or the proposed
Objectivist newsgroup to realize that the newsgroup does not belong here!
Philosophy is a serious, academic discipline.  It is fundamentally dissimilar
from topics such as politics, religion, abortion, rape and rumors.  (I would
say that talk.philosophy.misc is also fundamentally dissimilar from these
topics.)  Placing the newsgroup in the talk hierarchy would be akin to a
university dismantling its philosophy department and creating a student
organization to replace it.

-- David Bombardier
   demodsb@iitmax.iit.edu