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- From: pky@fmg.bt.co.uk (Pete Young)
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- Subject: Re: RFD: RENAME several groups to rec.outdoors.*
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.120537.6295@fmg.bt.co.uk>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 12:05:37 GMT
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- Tim Rigg (rigg@osnome.che.wisc.edu) wrote:
-
- : In addition, obvious outdoors.* groups should be moved to that
- : hierarchy. Specially, rec.hunting should be moved.
-
- Well, it's one thing for the rec.backcountry and rec.hunting groups to
- put their own house in order, but I don't think major reconstruction of
- these newsgroups is appropriate. In particular:
-
- : rec.boats.paddle
-
- I'm a lurker in rec.boats.paddle these days, but I object strongly to
- renaming the group on several grounds :
-
- * it's already difficult enough to guess what the purpose of the group is
- from the name without another layer of indirection
-
- * Many aspects of rafting , canoeing and kayaking take place indoors
- (like construction, training, sports like canoe-polo etc)
-
- : rec.scuba
-
- * The name of the newsgroup as it is perfectly describes the discussions
- that take place. (Although if anyone wants to create
- alt.personals.scuba I wouldn't disagree :-)
-
- * Once again, training and other aspects of scuba take place indoors
-
- * Much of the discussion is about things which relate more to physiology
- than `outdoors'
-
- I would prefer to see such a re-organisation limited to the groups
- who've actually been talking about it. If that fails, I'd like to see an
- individual vote on the re-naming of each of the groups in the list.
-
- That way, I wouldn't be forced to vote against the wishes of people in,
- for example, rec.backcountry, simply to avoid the (IMHO) pointless
- re-naming of some of the groups that I enjoy.
-
- Regards
-
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