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- From: mnemonic@eff.org (Mike Godwin)
- Subject: Re: *Any* kind of r.a.b split, or at least a *serious* discussion
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.025428.20357@eff.org>
- Originator: mnemonic@eff.org
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- Organization: Electronic Frontier Foundation
- References: <1992Dec21.155016.19105@panix.com> <1992Dec22.175831.28627@nevada.edu> <92357.145658U48073@uicvm.uic.edu>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 02:54:28 GMT
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- In article <92357.145658U48073@uicvm.uic.edu> Cole Kendall <U48073@uicvm.uic.edu> writes:
- >As an infrequent poster, and a frequent reader/lurker, I offer
- >a modest proposal. Why not split into:
- >
- >rec.arts.books and rec.arts.booklovers (approximate title)
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- How about rec.arts.books and rec.arts.books.pigeonhole?
-
- >This seems to be the crux of the issue. Fido is the archetypal
- >book lover, and anything he would want to discuss would easily
- >fit into the appropriate matter for r.a.bl, as would discussions
- >of spinster societies and Rabelaisian discussions of internal
- >plumbing.
-
- I believe that virtually everything Fido writes is appropriate for
- rec.arts.books proper. Ditto for the spinster society stuff and the
- Rabelais thread.
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- rec.arts.books.pigeonhole could be reserved for those benighted souls
- who can't see how books pervade everything, and how almost every
- discussion follows from or leads to a discussion of books.
-
-
- --Mike
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