Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!yale!think!samsung!uunet!mcsun!ukc!edcastle!aiai!jeff From: jeff@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Jeff Dalton) Newsgroups: news.groups Subject: Re: A Fine Arts Newsgroup Keywords: fine arts Message-ID: <1910@skye.ed.ac.uk> Date: 2 Mar 90 16:54:47 GMT References: <553@unicorn.WWU.EDU> <2546@castle.ed.ac.uk> Reply-To: jeff@aiai.UUCP (Jeff Dalton) Organization: AIAI, University of Edinburgh, Scotland Lines: 10 In article <2546@castle.ed.ac.uk> jha@lfcs.ed.ac.uk (Jamie Andrews) writes: >imagine someone saying _The Dinner Party_ is not "fine" art, >it's a craft-based political statement... argh... But it is a craft-based political statement. Do you suppose it can't be both? Just as your message is both a policical statement and a message on the finer points of naming newsgroups. Hierarchies are a pain that way. So just pick a reasonable name that doesn't distort things too much and go with it.