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- From: plarimer@silver.ucs.indiana.edu ( )
- Subject: Re: What is 'soc' short for?
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 15:15:30 GMT
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- In <1993Jan22.133056.11987@infodev.cam.ac.uk> gdb15@grebe.cl.cam.ac.uk (Guy Barry) writes:
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- >[Followups to soc.misc.]
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- >I've been reading and sporadically posting to a variety of soc.*
- >groups for some time now. Yet it's only just struck me that I don't
- >actually know what the 'soc' bit signifies. There seem to be two
- >quite different interpretations which sometimes fit rather uneasily
- >with each other: 'social', i.e. groups in which people who are
- >bisexual/coupled/male/gay/single/female/etc. have an opportunity to
- >socialize electronically, and 'sociology', i.e. groups whose purpose
- >is to discuss the sociology (in a popular sense) of being
- >bisexual/coupled/male/gay/single/female/etc. Each group has a
- >different balance between the two aspects, presumably influenced by
- >history, who happens to be posting at the time and other similar
- >factors, but it still seems to me that the soc.* hierarchy has never
- >really worked out which purpose it is serving.
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- >Any comments on this? And can anyone who's been on the net for
- >sufficiently long give an account of how and why the soc.* hierarchy
- >was set up?
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-
- Seams to me that the soc.* groups are for anything socialy relevant
- to the addressed topic, whether that be simple discussion or providing
- information.
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