riks@csl.sony.co.jp (Rik Smoody) (02/21/90)
I looked in my .newsrc file, and was shocked to find only about 20 soc.culture.someplace groups. Large areas of the world were MISSING, including the USSR, Mexico, Canada, Brazil, Italia, Deutchland, Greenland, even the entire continents of Australia and Antactica and all of the oceans! (Some of those are arguably included in more general groups). Perhaps KDD is just not bringing the appropriate groups into Japan? I noticed pending proposals for several countries... Why don't we save tremendous traffic in news.groups and make groups for ALL of the currently known countries? Considering soc.culture.esperanto, soc.culture.african, soc.culture.asian.american, and soc.culture.jewish, perhaps we should also create groups for each known religion, language, continent, and identifiable group of people. The overall list is not so large. If the opposition says it would take too much space, then I'd say there's a design flaw in the method of handling groups. The new design is left as an exercise for the readers of comp.groupware. Having done made the groups, we would help stabilize the world. Would the Burmese ever be able to convince the thousands of computer systems to change the name of their group to soc.culture.myanmar? Leaders of civil wars would have a hard time convincing us to split their groups into soc.culture.north-east.south.africa and .... well, you get the idea: people would be strongly encouraged to work out their disputes and not go changing just for no good reason. Aside: would the first person who see's this outside of Japan please send me mail: I wonder if news in this group escapes. Rik Fischer Smoody Sony Computer Science Lab, Inc. 3-14-13 Higashigotanda, Shinagawa-ku Tokyo 141 Japan phone: (03)448-4381 FAX (03)448-4273 E-mail: riks@csl.sony.co.jp (my address in Nihongo removed to encourage mail-handlers to pass the message along) -- Rik Fischer Smoody Sony Computer Science Lab, Inc., 3-14-13 Higashigotanda Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo 141 Japan (03)448-4380
dzhang@redondo.usc.edu (02/22/90)
-In article <11406@riks.csl.sony.co.jp>, riks@csl.sony.co.jp (Rik
Smoody) writes:
- Large areas of the world were MISSING, including the USSR, Mexico,
- Canada, ...
Yes, soc.culture.canada or soc.culture.canadian is in order!john@chance.UUCP (John R. MacMillan) (02/22/90)
In article <11406@riks.csl.sony.co.jp> Rik Fischer Smoody writes: |I looked in my .newsrc file, and was shocked to find only about 20 |soc.culture.someplace groups. |Large areas of the world were MISSING, including the USSR, Mexico, |Canada ^^^^^^ We don't have culture here; just the idea that we should protect it from American culture, which we don't really believe exists either. -- John R. MacMillan | For a long time I felt without style or grace john@chance.UUCP | Wearing shoes with no socks in cold weather ...!utcsri!hcr!chance!john | -- Talking Heads
darcy@druid.uucp (D'Arcy J.M. Cain) (02/23/90)
In article <1249@uscacsc.usc.edu> dzhang@redondo.usc.edu writes: > >-In article <11406@riks.csl.sony.co.jp>, riks@csl.sony.co.jp (Rik >Smoody) writes: >- Large areas of the world were MISSING, including the USSR, Mexico, >- Canada, ... > >Yes, soc.culture.canada or soc.culture.canadian is in order! Or soc.culture.cdn No! No! Please don't beat me. I was only kidding. -- D'Arcy J.M. Cain (darcy@druid) | Thank goodness we don't get all D'Arcy Cain Consulting | the government we pay for. West Hill, Ontario, Canada | (416) 281-6094 |