gjk@talcott.UUCP (Greg Kuperberg) (04/05/85)
Since the creation of net.politics.theory, the Socialist/Libertarian argument has been virtually eradicated from net.politics. Furthermore, although that discussion occasionally lapsed into the background of net.politics, it has enojoyed a continuous livelihood in net.politics.theory. For the same reaons that net.politics.theory is successful, it is now appropriate to create net.politics.nukes. In addition, net.politics is consistently high in the "Top 25" busiest news groups; net.politics.nukes would divert at least some of the traffic. If you think net.politics.nukes, please mail a message to me saying so. It is conceivable that the more general net.politics.arms is more appropriate; if you would rather have that subgroup please specify. I will compile all responses into a petition. In any case, it is imperative that you do *something*, be it lobbying via mail or lobbying via news groups, because a news group will *not* be created without input from the Usenet community. C'mon Tim Sevener, Jim Matthews, Martin Taylor, and the rest of you, say something about net.politics.nukes! -- Greg Kuperberg harvard!talcott!gjk "The eerily accurate drawing of Goetz showed the face of the 'before' figure in comic-book ads for body-building devices."-Time Magazine, April 8
mike@erix.UUCP (Mike Williams) (04/09/85)
Here in Europe, the problem is getting net.politics at all. At present it seems that the people at mcvax are about to turn off the tap at the end of this week. The problem is (perhaps) the large trans-Atlantic transmission costs What we need to get it turned back on is a "filtering out" of those articles which are not of world wide interest (ie mainly North American Local polics). This would mean that things like the handgun debate would get the chop (and I would be sorry to see it go). Groups such as nukes are obviously of world wide interest. The solution as far as Europe is concerned is one of the following: Create as many sub groups of local North American interest as possible, so that net.politics (the main group) contains only items of international interest. Create a net.politics.world which would be transmitted to Europe, but net.politics would not. Both these cases mean that net.politics.nukes would be unsuitable, so my vote for net.politics.nukes is NO! --Mike Williams (mike@erix.UUCP or ...mcvax!enea!erix!mike)