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- From: lenoil@catalogic.com (Robert Lenoil)
- Newsgroups: news.groups,sci.crypt
- Subject: sci.crypt.research
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- Date: 28 Dec 92 10:57:42 GMT
- References: <BzvnB8.u0@chinet.chi.il.us> <1992Dec27.043202.29306@ncar.ucar.edu> <23998@elevia.uniforum.qc.ca>
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- In article <23998@elevia.uniforum.qc.ca> alain@elevia.uniforum.qc.ca (Alain Simon) writes:
- > I would much rather create a talk group dedicated to political
- > aspects, philosophical issues, and subversive proposals
- > than move an existing group with a strong mandate and a very
- > clearly identifiable hierarchy (sci).
- >
- > NO to sci.crypt.research
- > YES to talk.crypt
- > YES to keeping sci.crypt as is
- > NO to moderating either
-
- I started up rn today with the intention of unsubscribing to sci.crypt
- because of the transmogrification of the newsgroup into a legal/political
- forum instead of an academic one. I'm very glad therefore to see this RFD for
- a new group. As for whether the practitioners should move to a new group
- (sci.crypt.research) or the lawyers/politicians should get a new group
- (talk.crypt), I don't have a strong preference. However, I would point out
- that having the word "research" in the group name would be a stronger hint
- as to the group's purpose than trying to infer the respective group agendas
- based solely on the prefixes "sci" and "talk." But then again, USENET has
- a large readership of UNIX users that are quite at home with terse word
- fragments. Wdnt u agre? :)
-
- If the two group names don't provide enough guidance to would-be posters,
- then moderating the academic newsgroup might be necessary. Or would a weekly
- "Welcome to sci.crypt[.research]" posting be enough to alert readers to the
- respective group charters? I welcome responses from people with actual
- anecdotal evidence.
-
- -Robert
-