jtchew@csa2.lbl.gov (JOSEPH T CHEW) (03/29/91)
ety,comp.software-eng,comp.text,comp.text.desktop,sci.lang,comp.doc,comp.editors ,comp.cog-eng,sci.astro,sci.bio,sci.environment,sci.skeptic Subject: Update on fate of SCI.TECH-COMM proposal Date: 28-MAR-1991 21:32:20 GMT Expires: References: Sender: Reply-To: jtchew@csa2.lbl.gov Followup-To: news.groups Distribution: world Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory - Berkeley, CA, USA Keywords: News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.3-4 Thank you, everyone, for your responses to the proposal for SCI.TECH-COMM, a newsgroup about technical writing and other forms of professional communication. Much has happened in the past three weeks; here is an update. Several well-reasoned arguments persuaded me to fold my proposal into a more or less simultaneous discussion of another proposal, MISC.WRITING. Its leading proponent is L.A.Z. Smith (leah@smith.chi.il.us). I think that, with appropriate use of keywords, we can make scholarly and practical discussions of technical writing coexist with other discussions in that broadly defined newsgroup. The proposed charter for MISC.WRITING is currently being argued about in NEWS.GROUPS, the newsgroup about newsgroups. (I post this here because the MISC.WRITING Request for Discussion did not seem to make it very far into the sci. and comp. hierarchies, where most of the interest in SCI.TECH-COMM was found.) The relevant Subject: lines are Call for Discussion: SCI.TECH-COMM and RFD: MISC.WRITING (note the two spaces). If you're interested, you might want to drop in. Followups are directed there exclusively. --Joe