xanthian@saturn.ADS.COM (Metafont Consultant Account) (02/13/90)
In article <7482@yunexus.UUCP> gall@yunexus.UUCP (Norm Gall) writes: >ka@cs.washington.edu (Kenneth Almquist) writes: >| Subjects like anthropology are usually referred to as social sciences >| rather than as humanities. So how about "hss", short for "humanities >| and social sciences"? >This is a good idea..... >now let's stop talking about it and _do_ it...... OK, so now where do I put the up-and-coming herpetology mid-level news group? Do I place it by the sound of the top-level name, or by its intended meaning of the top-level meaning? Anyway, hss.herpetology.snakes sure sounds good to me! ;-) -- Again, my opinions, not the account furnishers'. xanthian@well.sf.ca.us (Kent Paul Dolan) xanthian@ads.com - expiring soon; please use Well address for replies. Kent, the (bionic) man from xanth, now available as a build-a-xanthian kit at better toy stores near you. Warning - some parts proven fragile. -> METAFONT, TeX, graphics programming done on spec -- (415) 964-4486 <-
gall@yunexus.UUCP (Norm Gall) (02/14/90)
xanthian@saturn.ADS.COM (Metafont Consultant Account) writes: | OK, so now where do I put the up-and-coming herpetology mid-level news | group? Do I place it by the sound of the top-level name, or by its | intended meaning of the top-level meaning? | Anyway, hss.herpetology.snakes sure sounds good to me! ;-) Hee hee hee... now seriously folks... seems like sci.zoo(ology).herpetology to me... hmmm...... sci.zoo.* sci.botany.* ... nrg -- "The mythology of the language machine is the mythology of a technologically advanced society which has not yet come to terms with its own linguistic self-awareness." -- R. Harris
jeffd@ficc.uu.net (jeff daiell) (02/14/90)
In article <10834@saturn.ADS.COM>, xanthian@saturn.ADS.COM (Metafont Consultant Account) writes: > In article <7482@yunexus.UUCP> gall@yunexus.UUCP (Norm Gall) writes: > >ka@cs.washington.edu (Kenneth Almquist) writes: > > >| Subjects like anthropology are usually referred to as social sciences > >| rather than as humanities. So how about "hss", short for "humanities > >| and social sciences"? > > > OK, so now where do I put the up-and-coming herpetology mid-level news > group? Do I place it by the sound of the top-level name, or by its > intended meaning of the top-level meaning? > > Anyway, hss.herpetology.snakes sure sounds good to me! ;-) There's not a sibilance of truth in that. Jeff -- Pun for the day: "I'm a sucker for vampire stories." -- Chuq von Rospach
jeffd@ficc.uu.net (jeff daiell) (02/14/90)
In article <7534@yunexus.UUCP>, gall@yunexus.UUCP (Norm Gall) writes: > xanthian@saturn.ADS.COM (Metafont Consultant Account) writes: > > | OK, so now where do I put the up-and-coming herpetology mid-level news > | group? Do I place it by the sound of the top-level name, or by its > | intended meaning of the top-level meaning? > > seems like sci.zoo(ology).herpetology to me... > > > hmmm...... sci.zoo.* > sci.botany.* Let me object to the latter on Peter's behalf. Being from Australia, he'd probably prefer to keep botany at bay. -- Pun for the day: "I'm a sucker for vampire stories." -- Chuq von Rospach