[net.college] charter

mjl (01/21/83)

There IS -- as we all know by now from net.women -- a protocol for creation 
of new newsgroups, based on the criterion of sufficient general interest.
Personally, I feel there are enough college students using the net to warrent 
such a group, though many others on USENET are probably concerned about some 
of the issues that will doubtless be discussed here, and I hope they will
read and contribute.

HOWEVER...with regard to Willis Johnson's item mentioning "the peace movement,
anti-nuke, and other issues of concern to college students..." I would admonish
everyone to remember that there ARE college students -- yes, even activists of
a sort -- who are pro-nuke and conservative in their political views.  I would
not like to see such people excluded (explicitly or, more importantly, 
implicitly) from this group -- if it is to survive, let's try to keep it an
OPEN forum.

Matt Landau
...decvax!genradbolton!wjh12!mjl

[For the record, I consider myself a political moderate, though I tend 
 toward the conservative side in foreign policy matters.              ]