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- From: twpierce@unix.amherst.edu (Tim Pierce)
- Subject: Re: Time to Decide on the Name (was Newsgroup For Personality Typing Systems)
- Message-ID: <BxxCL5.G6A@unix.amherst.edu>
- Organization: Elitist Usenet Administrators, Stuff & Nonsense Division
- References: <1992Nov17.013024.11747@netcom.com> <18NOV199210085233@cl2.cl.uh.edu>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 18:27:04 GMT
- Lines: 48
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- In article <18NOV199210085233@cl2.cl.uh.edu> SWEN1B1F@cl.uh.edu writes:
-
- >In checking the newsgroup names, I notice that the groups starting
- >alt.personal seem tightly focused on specific areas of human [or
- >bestial] behavior.
-
- alt.personal was not proposed as a name for this group.
- Alt.personality was proposed, but that's quite a different kettle of
- wax.
-
- >Those with psych are in the sci. hierarchy, and
- >that type exists nowhere else.
-
- There's no reason why a psychology hierarchy couldn't be created.
-
- >So I toss into the ring the following
- >suggestions:
- >
- >alt.types
- >alt.typing
- >alt.typology
- >alt.typophile
- >alt.typical
- >
- >I doubt anyone would read more than one note in the new group and
- >think it was dedicated to faces, feet size, fonts, body width, and
- >kerning.
-
- Probably not, but people looking for a group on Myers-Briggs are not
- likely to look for a group named "alt.types." They'll be looking for
- a group relating to psychology, or personality.
- alt.psychology.personality, for the study of personality types from a
- psychological perspective, makes excellent sense.
-
- alt.types is, frankly, a ludicrous suggestion. Sitting next to
- alt.bitterness, alt.atheism, alt.fax, and alt.drugs at the top level
- of the alt hierarchy, it doesn't suggest anything about its content.
-
- >In addition to a name, a charter carefully written to be inclusive,
- >yet focused on type, typing, and typology of humans, other sentient
- >being and their psyches would be important.
-
- Not particularly.
-
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