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