gsmith@garnet.berkeley.edu (Gene W. Smith) (01/25/90)
In article <9001242301.AA08664@apee.ogi.edu>, mehuld@APEE (Mehul Dave) writes: >In article <899@athen.sinix.UUCP> es@sinix.UUCP (Dr. Sanio) writes >>On the other hand, I don't blame anybody insisting in that >>sytematic distinction (unless she/he explicitly expresses that) >>to regard philosophy, social sciences or other fields of human >>thought as non-serious or irrelevant. On the Usenet itself, I >>regret that there is no hierarchy which reflects those parts of >>academic thought and research. Simply putting those topics under >>soc, alt or talk seems a poor solution to me, too. >As you say, this would require a very deep revision of structure of the >news system. Besides, some of the social sciences such as psychology, >economics, education etc. have been already placed in the "sci" >hierarchy so sci is not fully restricted only to the physical sciences. "Sci" was supposed to be for recognized sciences, not physical sciences per se. But the structure could be revised in various ways. One kluge which would not be too difficult to implement would be a new top-level domain "hum" for humanities. Thus, hum.history, hum.philosophy.misc, hum.arts.literature, etc. -- ucbvax!garnet!gsmith Gene Ward Smith/Brahmsgangster/Berkeley CA 94720 ucbvax!bosco!gsmith "DUMB problem!! DUMB!!!" -- Robert L. Forward
xanthian@saturn.ADS.COM (Metafont Consultant Account) (01/25/90)
In article <1990Jan25.081719.2749@agate.berkeley.edu> gsmith@garnet.berkeley.edu (Gene W. Smith) writes: > "Sci" was supposed to be for recognized sciences, not physical >sciences per se. But the structure could be revised in various >ways. One kluge which would not be too difficult to implement >would be a new top-level domain "hum" for humanities. Thus, >hum.history, hum.philosophy.misc, hum.arts.literature, etc. That looks like an _excellent_ idea. The use of computers in the humanities is ever increasing, and a top level domain would allow schools (in particular) interested in these applications to focus their interests more easily on pertinent articles, while allowing those establishments subscribing only for commercially useful information (and not finding it there) to select against such articles more easily. Of course, this could circle back to the (perpetual) arguments aobut the need for a liberal education for, say, engineers, but let's not, OK? -- Again, my opinions, not the account furnishers'. xanthian@well.sf.ca.us xanthian@ads.com (Kent Paul Dolan) 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 <-