gam@proper.UUCP (Gordon Moffett) (05/12/84)
# Gee, I thought I'd made a good case for net.psych, being able to site many instances where it would have been used if it had exist (ie, `Time Perception', `Why Suicide?', `Clinical Depression', `Electroshock Therapy', etc -- these are articles which have appeared in various newsgroups over the past few months). I forgot the (lengthy) `Coca-cola thought experiment', and various articles therefrom discussing addictions. So I don't feel that net.psych is `yet another low-volume newsgroup' -- psychology is one of many popular issues for which a stable forum is desirable; indeed, look at the popularity of `Psychology Today', radio shrinks and sex therapists, and the debate over psychiatric testimony in the courts! net.psych would appeal not only to pop psychology issues, but perhaps be a place where people can learn stuff about how the mind (oops, sorry, Dr Skinner) works, and what motivates behavior. Thank you for your attention.
chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach) (05/13/84)
Gordon does have a point (See, I don't always disagree with you! :->) that
there have been a number of psych oriented discussion floating over the net.
My REAL disagreement with net.psych is that I think that the net needs to
start using subtopics a little more intelligently. I have been talking about
creating two new main topics for a while, net.sci and net.cs. There has been
mild support for both, but nothing really strong enough to justify their
creation.
What I would LIKE to see is net.sci created, and net.sci.psych created as a
sub topic if people feel it really deserves its own group. This gives us a
good basis for eventually taking all of the main level topics that should
be sub-topics and figuring out how to move them. If we keep creating top
level topics for everything we'll never get a handle on it and the net will
continue to increase in complexity and become unwieldy.
here's to reducing complexity in everyday life!
chuq
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Or is it someone calling me, someone I failed and left behind?mcrk@pyuxo.UUCP (C Koster) (05/14/84)
Yet another vote for net.psych... There are enough people interested so can we do it?
dyer@vaxuum.DEC (Example #22) (05/15/84)
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Another vote for either net.psych or net.sci.psych.
Psyched,
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: Jym Dyer : Nashua, NH : ...{allegra,decvax,ucbvax}!decwrl!rhea!vaxuum!dyer :wmartin@brl-vgr.ARPA (Will Martin ) (05/15/84)
This discussion of net.psych is interesting. (By the way, if someone counts votes, I'm for it.) A few months ago, I put out an inquiry on net.news.group or net.news about why there wasn't a psychology-oriented newsgroup. This was due to my wanting to post an inquiry appropriate to such a group. (That was the start of the now-famous Time Perception discussion, by the by. [He takes a bow as the applause wells up...]) Anyway, there was NO response to that posting, so I put the Time Perception query out on net.misc. Maybe this is evidence in favor of the often-expressed opinion that people should post articles first and ask for groups afterwards. We now use the Time Perception and other topical discussions as evidence to support a net.psych. Will