mark@cbosgd.UUCP (Mark Horton) (01/09/84)
Time and time again, something crops up in net.general and net.followup (and often independently in net.flame) that rages on and on, and has little to do with what net.general was intended for (important announcements and queries). These discussions seem to frequently have to do with the Americans vs the Soviets, or with something else either political or controversial, and are triggered by something on the (non-Usenet) news media. I'd like to propose a newsgroup for such discussions to take place in, so we can have net.general free from such things. Since net.news is already taken, how about net.cur-events? (If anyone has a more attractive abbrevation, I'm game.) Alternatively, if someone can make a good case that this is exactly what net.politics is for (I don't read that one), let's form a policy that such things must be confined to net.politics. Examples of the discussions I'd like to have seen go into this group are the invasion of Grenada, the handgun debate, and the one that's about to start up about Jesse Jackson. Mark Horton