webber@brandx.rutgers.edu.UUCP (10/30/87)
In article <23463COK@PSUVMA>, COK@PSUVMA.BITNET (R. W. Clark, K. S. C.) writes: > Some neat little rumors I think other alt.cyberpunks might be interested in, > or already know. I'm crossposting this to rec.arts.sf-lovers because I find > it rather odd that cyberpunk is ghettoized in alt.cyberpunk. It really seems > that alt.cyberpunk should just merge with rec.arts.sf-lovers. It would make > more sense that way. > .... > [A possible apology: If any of this stuff has appeared before,I apologize for > wasting time with it;just recently, alt.cyberpunk became a valid newsgroup in > PSUVMA, so I may have missed discussion of this. If not, I suppose I can take > a bow for bringing new information onto the newsgroup.] alt.cyberpunk has existed for 134 messages (as meaningful as any other time unit on the net). It is not a subset of sf-lovers, although from time to time there is overlap. Basically it is a group for people who want to consider the concepts presented in ``cyberpunk'' novels at both the fictional and nonfictional level. Thus sometimes messages on alt.cyberpunk look more like comp.risks or comp.arch or comp.graphics than like rec.arts.sf-lovers. The group allows people to address matters in a way that is counter to the organization of the comp.* and rec.* groups. While it doesn't reach all the backwaters that rec.arts.sf-lovers reaches, the audience of alt.cyberpunk is reasonably large and the group tends to be better read since it is smaller. Lacking a decent keyword structure, this is the best one can do on Usenet. ---------- BOB (webber@aramis.rutgers.edu ; rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!webber)