tan@Sun.COM (Tin Nguyen) (01/14/90)
This is a call for discussions to start a new newsgroup. SUGGESTED NAME: soc.culture.vietnam PURPOSE: To discuss subjects related specifically to Viet Nam. The group is intended to be a medium for exchanging and discussing any information relating to Vietnamese culture, news, politics, etc. ESTIMATE OF USER INTERREST: 500+ There is currently a non-publicly organized Viet net through the mail alias viet-net@cs.bu.edu. This Viet net has approximately 300 members. TRAFFIC ESTIMATE: 30+ articles per week Currently, there are about 5 entries on the Viet net each day. The traffic should at least double once we have a public news group. MODERATION: No. COMMENTS: There are some Viet netters who express interests in a public news group and believe that USENET readers who do not know about Viet net or have access to it would be very interest in a public newsgroup. NOTE: We have ~4 weeks to discuss about whether this newsgroup should be started, and what its purposes/guidelines should be. -- Tin A. Nguyen tan@zetalisp.sun.com Sun Microsystems, 2525 Garcia Ave., MS 12-33, Mountain View, CA, 94043, USA
troly@oak.math.ucla.edu (Bret Jolly) (01/18/90)
In article <130177@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> tan@Sun.COM (Tin Nguyen) writes: >This is a call for discussions to start a new newsgroup. >SUGGESTED NAME: soc.culture.vietnam soc.culture.vietnamese would be a better name.
tam@vega (Tam M. Nguyen) (01/18/90)
In article <2162@sunset.MATH.UCLA.EDU> troly@math.ucla.edu (Bret Jolly) writes: >In article <130177@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> tan@Sun.COM (Tin Nguyen) writes: >>This is a call for discussions to start a new newsgroup. >>SUGGESTED NAME: soc.culture.vietnam > >soc.culture.vietnamese would be a better name. An interesting suggestion as to "vietnamese" instead of "vietnam", but I don't quite understand the reasoning behind it. "vietnam" would keep the naming convention of soc.culture."china, hongkong, ..." Tam M. Nguyen { tam@ernie.Berkeley.EDU | ...!ucbvax!ucbernie!tam }
th@teda.UUCP (Tivonne Ha) (01/19/90)
tan@Sun.COM (Tin Nguyen) writes: >NOTE: >We have ~4 weeks to discuss about whether this newsgroup should be started, >and what its purposes/guidelines should be. I would like to see existence of soc.culture.vietnam group. One question though: I am not very familiar with etiquette on USENET, could someone please forward that to me if there's such thing? I would want to hear more suggestions on purposes/guidelines as well. -- Tivonne Ha UUCP: ...!{decwrl,sun}!teraida!th Teradyne EDA, Inc. Phone: (408) 980-5200 5155 Old Ironsides Drive Santa Clara, Ca 95054
dveditz@dbase.A-T.COM (Dan Veditz) (01/20/90)
tam@vega (Tam M. Nguyen) writes: > An interesting suggestion as to "vietnamese" instead of "vietnam", but > I don't quite understand the reasoning behind it. "vietnam" would keep the > naming convention of soc.culture."china, hongkong, ..." And vietnamese would keep the naming convention of indian,korean,celtic... Of the existing soc.culture groups, 10 refer to nationality ("vietnamese"), and 7 refer to geographical area ("vietnam"). (I counted 'asean' as an area, and ignored 'misc'.) -Dan | uunet!ashtate!dveditz Vote NO on moderated 'talk' groups. | dveditz@ashtate.A-T.com
dinh@cbnewse.ATT.COM (hoan.t.dinh) (01/22/90)
In article <130177@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> tan@Sun.COM (Tin Nguyen) writes: > >This is a call for discussions to start a new newsgroup. > >SUGGESTED NAME: soc.culture.vietnam > >PURPOSE: To discuss subjects related specifically to Viet Nam. > >The group is intended to be a medium for exchanging and discussing any >information relating to Vietnamese culture, news, politics, etc. > [much good stuffs deleted] >-- >Tin A. Nguyen tan@zetalisp.sun.com >Sun Microsystems, 2525 Garcia Ave., MS 12-33, >Mountain View, CA, 94043, USA I think this is a great idea. Being isolated in the northern states, I seldom have any news from VietNam. Please put my vote "YES" for this newsgroup. +==========================+==========================================+ |Hoan Dinh - AT&T Bell Labs| | |uunet!sun!att!ihlts!dinh | "One who laughs last laughs best." | |or dinh@cbnewse.ATT.COM | This is not an "iff" statement. | +==========================+==========================================+
tad@cbnewsj.ATT.COM (tuan.a.duong) (01/26/90)
I vote YES to the newsgroup SOC.CULTURE.VIETNAM as proposed.