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- From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
- Subject: Re: Space List Flame Wars
- Message-ID: <C0D6vF.H01@zoo.toronto.edu>
- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 04:52:26 GMT
- References: <C0BGzz.1FA.1@cs.cmu.edu>
- Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
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- In article <C0BGzz.1FA.1@cs.cmu.edu> pgf@srl03.cacs.usl.edu ("Phil G. Fraering") writes:
- > ... The people trying to push this off into
- > other newsgroups, which are accesible neither for posting
- > nor reading purposes to much of the internet population, are
- > IMHO either ignorant of the status quo or actively supporting
- > said status quo...
-
- While I'm reluctant to disagree with Phil after his most complimentary
- comments on my contribution :-), I'm afraid I have to here.
-
- If your site does not get talk.politics.space, there is a reason. Your
- site administrators presumably have decided that they do not wish to
- expend resources on political discussions. (If the lack of the
- group is just because they don't know their customers want it... have
- you told them about it?) Moving such discussions to sci.space is NOT
- a desirable response -- it might make them shut off this group too, on
- the grounds that it's too political.
-
- There's always going to be some spillover of politics into sci.space,
- because space is a very politics-driven field right now. But we can
- try to keep the knock-down-drag-out fights in talk.politics.space,
- where they really do belong.
- --
- "God willing... we shall return." | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
- -Gene Cernan, the Moon, Dec 1972 | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry
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