todd@uhccux.UUCP (The Perplexed Wiz) (01/08/88)
It's been at least three or four years since I last saw an attempt to
create a newsgroup devoted to psychology. So, I thought I'd test the
waters once more. A few weeks ago, I tested the waters by asking the
readers of sci.med if they would be interested in a new group called
'sci.psych'. I received about a dozen 'yeas' and no 'nays' in
response to that water testing query.
If created, I see 'sci.psych' as a group for discussions that are in
the cracks between: comp.ai, comp.cog-eng, misc.kids, misc.legal,
news.groups, sci.bio, sci.lang, sci.math.stat, sci.med, sci.misc,
sci.philosophy.tech, sci.research, soc.college, soc.culture.misc,
soc.misc, talk.philosophy.misc.
'sci.psych' would be a forum for discussions on topics such as visual
illusions and their explanations; psychopathology [etiology,
diagnosis, treatment, etc.]; cognitive development theories and their
implications for child rearing, education, and artificial
intelligence; the difference between the legal definition of insanity
and the psychological "definitions" of mental disorder; animal
communication; the problems in selecting appropriate statistical tests
in social-behavioral studies and experiments; intelligence testing;
cross-cultural differences...etc.
If you are interested in seeing a newsgroup where discussions such as
these can take place, please MAIL ME YOUR VOTES (please, do not post
your votes to any of the newsgroups!) before February 8. The USENET
voting convention requires that there be at least 100 more 'yea' votes
than 'nay' votes, so please vote if you would like to see 'sci.psych'
created.
[BTW: I was told that there is an INET group called 'sci.psychology'
which some USENET sites already receive. If 'sci.psych' is created, I
would be interested in seeing an INET feed from 'sci.psychology' into
'sci.psych'.]
Please mail your votes to one of the addresses given below.
Thank you...todd
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INTERNET: todd@uhccux.UHCC.HAWAII.EDUsubraman@udel.EDU (Baskaran Subramaniam) (01/09/88)
In article <1416@uhccux.UUCP> todd@uhccux.UUCP (The Perplexed Wiz) writes: > >It's been at least three or four years since I last saw an attempt to >create a newsgroup devoted to psychology. So, I thought I'd test the >waters once more. A few weeks ago, I tested the waters by asking the >readers of sci.med if they would be interested in a new group called >'sci.psych'. I received about a dozen 'yeas' and no 'nays' in ^^^^^^^^^^^ > For your information, a news group called sci.psychology already exists, though not very active. So, any effort on your part to make it more active would be appreciated very much. Baskaran.
jbuck@epimass.EPI.COM (Joe Buck) (01/10/88)
In article <1416@uhccux.UUCP> todd@uhccux.UUCP (The Perplexed Wiz) writes: [ requests a new group called sci.psych ] >[BTW: I was told that there is an INET group called 'sci.psychology' >which some USENET sites already receive. If 'sci.psych' is created, I >would be interested in seeing an INET feed from 'sci.psychology' into >'sci.psych'.] Before you start collecting votes, wouldn't it make more sense and acheive your purposes if the existing sci.psychology were changed from an inet group to a "world" group? Seems pointly to contruct some kind of a gateway between two groups with similar names. This change has been made in the past (for example, for comp.software-eng and quite a few others). Why don't you solicit votes for making sci.psychology a regular group instead? -- - Joe Buck {uunet,ucbvax,sun,decwrl,<smart-site>}!epimass.epi.com!jbuck Old internet mailers: jbuck%epimass.epi.com@uunet.uu.net Argue for your limitations and you get to keep them. -- Richard Bach
todd@uhccux.UUCP (The Perplexed Wiz) (01/11/88)
In article <1820@epimass.EPI.COM> jbuck@epimass.EPI.COM (Joe Buck) writes: >In article <1416@uhccux.UUCP> todd@uhccux.UUCP (The Perplexed Wiz) writes: >Before you start collecting votes, wouldn't it make more sense and >acheive your purposes if the existing sci.psychology were changed >from an inet group to a "world" group? Seems pointly to contruct >some kind of a gateway between two groups with similar names. > >- Joe Buck {uunet,ucbvax,sun,decwrl,<smart-site>}!epimass.epi.com!jbuck > Old internet mailers: jbuck%epimass.epi.com@uunet.uu.net What you suggest is a good idea. However, I think the same result will be achieved no matter which path I take. If sci.psych does not get enough votes for creation, there is not much of an argument to ask for the INET sci.psychology articles to be gatewayed to USENET. On the other hand, if there are enough votes to justify the creation of a USENET sci.psych group, there there is also enough justification to ask for sci.psychology to be gatewayed in....todd -- Todd Ogasawara, U. of Hawaii Faculty Development Program UUCP: {ihnp4,uunet,ucbvax,dcdwest}!sdcsvax!nosc!uhccux!todd ARPA: uhccux!todd@nosc.MIL BITNET: todd@uhccux INTERNET: todd@uhccux.UHCC.HAWAII.EDU
tjhorton@utai.UUCP (Timothy J. Horton) (01/12/88)
In article <1416@uhccux.UUCP> todd@uhccux.UUCP (The Perplexed Wiz) writes: >It's been at least three or four years since I last saw an attempt to >create a newsgroup devoted to psychology. Has anyone else had difficulties sending mail to todd? I certainly have. If it's not sort of cognitive science he's trying to bundle together, it'll attract all kinds of stuff about affect, and sociological adjustment, and Rogers and Freud ... perhaps not particularly focussed, with too much potential for floundering in philosophy. There may be enough newsgroups swamped with such discussions already, and sci.psychology might turn out to be the next verbal battleground without referees. I'm hoping, eventually, for a sci.cognitive or comp.cog.sci somewhere, somewhen, somehow. Apparently, a lot of people were upset about misuse of comp.cog-eng, since it's supposed to be about cognitive factors engineering, (ie. human factors topics), but people have continued to "misuse" it again. Considering the kinds of material mentioned, should such a newsgroup have "cognitive" somewhere in the title? (ie. "cog")] A separate vote for sci.cog-sci? -- Timothy J Horton (416) 979-3109 tjhorton@ai.toronto.edu (CSnet,UUCP,Bitnet) Dept of Computer Science tjhorton@ai.toronto (other Bitnet) University of Toronto, tjhorton@ai.toronto.cdn (EAN X.400) Toronto, Canada M5S 1A4 {seismo,watmath}!ai.toronto.edu!tjhorton