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- From: kherron@ms.uky.edu (Kenneth Herron)
- Subject: Re: Idea: alt.forensics
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- Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 17:23:18 GMT
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- cstone@husc8.harvard.edu (christopher stone) writes:
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- >Since so many college (and high school) debaters seem to have access
- >to the net, and since a lot of former debaters might like to see
- >what's changed in the activity, and since grad students and so forth
- >in Europe (and Canada I think) still participate in debate, why not
- >establish an alt group about debate as a formal activity. We could
- >also analyze things like presidential debates and so on. Possible
- >names: alt.debate, alt.forensics?
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- I don't have a problem with the idea, though it'd be nice to see
- some evidence that the group would actually get used. I'd suggest
- avoiding the word "forensics" unless you want to be plagued by
- questions about whether "Quincy" was realistic or not :-)
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- Kenneth Herron kherron@ms.uky.edu
- University of Kentucky +1 606 257 2975
- Dept. of Mathematics "Your ball goes over them, it sails off the edge into a
- huge cauldren of fire-breathing dragons." "And they call this a par three?"
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