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- From: anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson)
- Newsgroups: soc.motss
- Subject: Re: soc.motss.*
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.105020.21678@macc.wisc.edu>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 10:50:20 GMT
- References: <1992Dec21.141228.13237@bsu-ucs> <1992Dec21.215922.12999@reed.edu> <1992Dec22.001422.25655@macc.wisc.edu> <Bzn9x8.F7E@unix.amherst.edu>
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- In article <Bzn9x8.F7E@unix.amherst.edu>
- twpierce@unix.amherst.edu (Tim Pierce) writes:
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- >In article <1992Dec22.001422.25655@macc.wisc.edu>
- >anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson) writes:
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- >>The trouble with "info" is that it doesn't separate
- >>anything.
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- >I really can't agree, both on practical grounds (if not
- >"info," then what?) and the issue of clarity.
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- You didn't address my intuition point, I guess.
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- >>News is info. How we lead our lives is info.
- >>Political philosophy and activism are info.
-
- >Which of these are
-
- (or is)
-
- >the sort of "info" that people are going to regard as
- >important general knowledge?
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- Any or all, depending on your point of view, which was just
- my point.
-
- >More to the point, which of these will be regarded as
- >informational enough to warrant being singled out in the
- >newsgroup name as "info?"
-
- That's backwards. The search is not for content to put in
- the group named info; it's for a name for the group whose
- content is of a certain sort.
-
- >Whether or not "info" is a term of obvious meaning, it's
- >unclear to me what could be the alternative.
- >soc.motss.news? Come on -- everything on Usenet is "news."
- >soc.motss.announce? Only if we're ready to post messages
- >regarding MOTSS v2.0, patchlevel 8. Bleah.
- >soc.motss.important? What?
-
- I proposed "documents" because that's what they are.
-
- I frankly don't think soc.motss.documents or whatever needs
- to be a moderated group. I don't think there need to be
- *any* moderated groups, really. If the unmoderated groups
- don't work well, we can create a moderated group in a later
- go-around.
-
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