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  1. Xref: sparky alt.config:6961 alt.activism.d:4188 talk.environment:4612
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!hela.iti.org!usc!randvax!jim
  3. From: jim@rand.org (Jim Gillogly)
  4. Newsgroups: alt.config,alt.activism.d,talk.environment
  5. Subject: Re: CFD: alt.politics.green-party
  6. Message-ID: <4007@randvax.rand.org>
  7. Date: 15 Nov 92 19:55:21 GMT
  8. References: <Jym.15Nov1992.0056@naughty-peahen> <Bxr7Ip.HF1@unix.amherst.edu>
  9. Sender: news@randvax.rand.org
  10. Organization: Banzai Institute
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  14. >In article <Jym.15Nov1992.0056@naughty-peahen> Jym Dyer <jym@mica.berkeley.edu> writes:
  15. >>=+= I recommend that we create an alt.politics.green-party
  16. >>newsgroup.  In the U.S., the Green Party did quite well
  17.  
  18. In article <Bxr7Ip.HF1@unix.amherst.edu> twpierce@unix.amherst.edu (Tim Pierce) writes:
  19. >With this proposal, can we start a precedent of "alt.politics.usa" as
  20. >a hierarchy for U.S.-specific issues?  Hence, alt.politics.usa.green-
  21. >party?
  22.  
  23. We should start that precedent for USA-specific political newsgroups, like
  24. the proposed alt.politics.usa.[united|uwsa].  However, the Green party is
  25. more international in flavor -- the California version of the Greens is
  26. quite self-consciously inspired by the German version, I believe.  So for
  27. <<this>> proposal, I think *.usa.* is inappropriate.
  28.  
  29. That said, I don't see the need for distinction between *.green and
  30. *.green-party, since the point of the Green Party is environmental
  31. political activism (isn't it?).
  32. -- 
  33.     Jim Gillogly
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