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From: israel@umcp-cs.UUCP
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Subject: Re: net.cs proposal
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Date: Fri, 24-Feb-84 14:04:31 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb 24 14:04:31 1984
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	From: alb@alice.UUCP
	
	Why don't people read the group list?  This is the second time
	in less than a month that someone has proposed net.cs -- WE
	ALREADY HAVE net.cse FOR THE SAME PURPOSE AND IT'S PRACTICALLY
	UNUSED!!!

According to the active news group list (which you yourself maintain),
net.cse is defined as:

net.cse			Computer science education.

Which is NOT the same as the current proposal!  net.cse is intended to
discuss educational techniques in computer science (at least that is
how I and probably many others read the above description).  The
proposal for net.cs is to discuss issues in computer science, not
computer science education.  Now, net.research might be the place for
it, (though I'm not sure;  the name and description are vague enough
that it doesn't really get used for anything), but that depends on what
things are intended to be discussed in net.cs.

I'm not one of those who are against the creation of new newsgroups,
but I do think that some need should be shown before a new group gets
created.  I haven't really seen a need for net.cs (since many of the
things that would be discussed in it have other places to go, i.e.
net.ai, net.lang[.*], net.micro[.*], net.cog-eng, and the suggested
discussion topic of RISC computers could even have gone in net.arch,
which is listed as discussing computer architectures).

If you really feel that there are things to discuss in the area of CS
that don't have a place, then why don't you start a discussion in
net.research and if there does seem to be a demand, then net.cs can be
created later.  But as it stands now, I cast a nay vote against net.cs
until a need is shown.
-- 

(If I had a cute saying, you'd probably be reading it rather than this
 garbage which says that if I had a cute saying, ... )

Bruce Israel

University of Maryland, Computer Science
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