ss6349@leah.Albany.Edu (Steven H Schimmrich) (05/21/89)
In article <5983@cs.Buffalo.EDU> dmark@sunybcs.UUCP (David Mark) writes: > Since your recent posting took the hard line "Don't bother suggesting new > names... It will be named SCI.GEO or it will not be created", I am forced to > vote "No", because GEO is also the first 3 letters of a major discipline, > GEOgraphy, which is primarliy concerned with the Social Sciences, and the > links between humans and environments. And let's not forget an even older > discipline, GEOmetry, a branch of mathematiccs. Since GEOgraphy itself might > easily deserve a newsgroup, to say nothing of GEOmetry,I feel that > establishment of a group, un-negotiably named SCI.GEO, yet restricted to > Earth Sciences, would lead to confusion and ambiguity, and should not be > done. > > I would have voted "YES" for SCI.GEOLOGY, or SCI.EARTH_SCIENCE, and will do > so, if this attempt fails, and if you try again with a more appropriate name. > > David Mark > Professor > Department of GEOgraphy > SUNY at Buffalo > > dmark@cs.buffalo.edu I meant that it would not be created by my efforts since it is rather time consuming and I may be leaving the academic world soon. Personally, I don't care what it's named but the discussion period has passed and now it's time to vote on a specific name. The general consensus during the discussion period was for SCI.GEO so that's what the voting is for. GEO being a prefix meaning "earth" I believe it to be appropriate for a group discussing the earth sciences. Unfortunately, it's impossible to please everyone regarding the naming of a newsgroup but I submit that the opportunity to have a newsgroup devoted to the earth sciences far outways any objections as to what to call it. -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- | Steven H. Schimmrich | Internet : ss6349@leah.albany.edu | | Department of Geological Sciences | "The Rock Men are very primitive | | State University of New York at Albany | Flash, they have no science." | | Albany, New York 12222 (518) 442-4470 | Dr. Zarkhov. | -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --