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- From: hartman@ulogic.UUCP (Richard M. Hartman)
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- Subject: Informal Interest Poll: rec.arts.sf --> rec.arts.f-sf
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- Date: 21 Dec 92 16:56:29 GMT
- References: <1gh53iINNjb4@agate.berkeley.edu> <1992Dec16.172522.26109@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <1992Dec17.180212.12715@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec17.180212.12715@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> geoffb@Dartmouth.EDU writes:
- >[Note Followups line! What's this doing in alt.config anyway???]
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- >In <1992Dec16.172522.26109@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> skwatkin@nyx.cs.du.edu (Steven Watkins) writes:
- >
- >> I really see the need for an alt.fantasy news group. I read the sf news
- >>groups and the specific fantasy author groups. I like sf, but I *love*
- >>fantasy. I would like to be able to talk about many different authors
- >>with others who share my interest in fantasy. I would rather not force
- >>sf fans to read fantasy posts as I am forced to read theirs now.
- >
- >As has been said before. The 'sf' in rec.arts.sf.* stands for 'speculative
- >fiction' not 'science fiction'. Discussion of fantasy belongs in the sf
- >groups as well.
- >
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- Yet another case of the name misleading the prospective member.
-
- I haven't run a vote yet, but I am about at the point of posting
- an official RFD on renaming rec.arts.sf.* to rec.arts.f-sf.* No
- split. No other changes. Just a name that more accurately reflects
- it's composition. And YES I have heard "it *really* MEANS 'speculative
- fiction', not 'science fiction'", but what it means to the people who
- are already there and people looking for a place to post are entirely
- different things. I would have thought it meant science fiction myself,
- but posted articles on fantasy books just because I always mix the two.
- (The Tangled Lands indeed!)
-
- Note: I have NOT taken part in rec.arts.sf discussion because I know
- it would take all of my time. Would someone repost this in the appropriate
- place under rec.arts.sf w/ replies cross-posted to news.groups?
-
-
- -Richard Hartman
- hartman@uLogic.COM
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