elbaum (05/27/82)
How can people flame about a natural language newsgroup, when
the primary function of this network is to support group
discussions on interesting subjects? Nobody griped about
net.scuba. Why should something which is closer to the
thing we all have in common, computers, be controversial?
Those who are complaining about the proliferation of groups
seem to have length of the .ngfile as their only legitimate
concern. But language is not a trivial subject. If some
of us wish to discuss it, or to speak among ourselves in
another language, this is certainly reasonable use of the
medium. And if a site really doesn't want to deal with the
newsgroup, the administrator can easily refuse it.
As far as worrying about what would be discussed, why not
just subscribe and find out? Evidently, there *is* enough
interest floating around to warrant the group.
Let's parler francais, or italiano, or Deutche!
-Daniel Elbaum
{duke,teklabs}!reed!elbaum