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  1. Xref: sparky alt.models:969 rec.models.railroad:1469 rec.models.rc:3061 rec.models.rockets:1946 news.groups:16169
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!asuvax!ncar!noao!arizona!sham
  3. From: sham@cs.arizona.edu (Shamim Zvonko Mohamed)
  4. Newsgroups: alt.models,rec.models.railroad,rec.models.rc,rec.models.rockets,news.groups
  5. Subject: Re: RFD: rec.models.scale
  6. Message-ID: <19789@optima.cs.arizona.edu>
  7. Date: 29 Jul 92 18:19:16 GMT
  8. References: <ceRQsFC00WB3Ab_V8W@andrew.cmu.edu> <13659@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu>
  9. Followup-To: news.groups
  10. Organization: U of Arizona CS Dept, Tucson
  11. Lines: 29
  12.  
  13. In article <13659@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu> rick@crick.ssctr.bcm.tmc.edu (Richard H. Miller) writes:
  14. >Actually, since most models are by definition 'scale', I would proposed
  15. >instead to fill the hole in the rec.models hierarchy and go ahead and propose 
  16. >    rec.models.misc 
  17.  
  18. Actually I would disagree. I build and fly R/C Sailplanes, but they're not
  19. models of anything, and they certainly don't have any kind of associated scale.
  20. The RFD is not for a sort of "catch-all" group to fill out the rec.models
  21. hierarchy, but for a group for discussion of static or scale modelling, the
  22. best examples of which are the plastic scale models. Check out alt.models:
  23. we're trying to move that traffic to rec.models.scale.
  24.  
  25. Of course, I am not arguing against rec.models.misc as such; just that it would
  26. not be a good name for the proposed group.
  27.  
  28. (Followups set to news.groups.)
  29.  
  30. -s
  31. --
  32. The "Introduction to and Help with Radio Control Flying" file (aka FAQ or
  33. "Frequently Asked Questions" file) can be obtained by anonymous ftp from
  34. pit-manager.mit.edu; get /pub/usenet/news.answers/RC-flying-FAQ/part*
  35.    If you don't have ftp, send mail to "mail-server@pit-manager.mit.edu" with
  36. this message:
  37.     send usenet/news.answers/RC-flying-FAQ/part1
  38.     send usenet/news.answers/RC-flying-FAQ/part2
  39.  
  40.   Shamim Mohamed / {uunet,noao,cmcl2..}!arizona!shamim / shamim@cs.arizona.edu
  41.  Member of the League for Programming Freedom - write to league@prep.ai.mit.edu
  42.