From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!duke!unc!brl-bmd!wmartin Newsgroups: net.news.group Title: Re: Proposal for Two New Newsgroups Article-I.D.: brl-bmd.247 Posted: Fri Jul 2 15:36:26 1982 Received: Sat Jul 3 06:49:47 1982 It is obvious that the proposed "net.safety" (or whatever) should really be part of fa.poli-sci; not only has there been no general hassle from the DARPA powers about Poli-Sci yet, despite a long history of political flaming of various persuasions, but setting up a separate group artificially divides the audience and participants. Any existing paths between USENET and ARPANET should be maintained and encouraged; any possible discussion has a higher probablility of value if the pool of participants is kept as large as possible. I have the current opportunity to access both the USENET and the ARPANET worlds, but most do not. Keep the path between ARPANET people who can never otherwise communicate with the USENET world open, and vice versa! Earlier, when I had no USENET access, I regretted the isolation from this community; I am sure many of you regret being isolated from ARPANET discussions. Let's not encourage such isolation when we have one of the few cross-net discussion groups already in existence for this topic area. Will Martin