marino@cs.ucla.edu (Fabio Marino) (05/13/91)
I am hereby issuing a call for discussion on the creation of the newsgroup soc.culture.italian. This shall be unmoderated and its charter will be the discussion of any aspect of the italian culture, ranging anywhere from politics to entertainment. I shall point out that this group has been running under the trial hierarchy for almost five months. Unfortunately, it seems from the reports I have received from other USENET users/system administrators that the trial hierarchy is NOT received on a majority of sites, therefore it is my opinion that the TRIAL method is not able to fulfill its aim. The traffic on trial.soc.culture.italian has been pretty intense (an average of 4-5 postings every day, even on something like 50 sites) even though italian universities have just recently gained access to USENET thanks to the collaboration of RPI. In consideration of the aforementioned facts, I would like to make the discussion period as short as possible. I welcome any suggestions, requests for clarifications or modifications to any aspect of the newsgroup's charter. Thanks for your time, Fabio Marino marino@cs.ucla.edu