Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site umcp-cs.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!harpo!seismo!rlgvax!cvl!umcp-cs!israel From: israel@umcp-cs.UUCP Newsgroups: net.news.group Subject: Re: net.cs proposal Message-ID: <5434@umcp-cs.UUCP> Date: Fri, 24-Feb-84 14:04:31 EST Article-I.D.: umcp-cs.5434 Posted: Fri Feb 24 14:04:31 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 26-Feb-84 01:33:41 EST References: <644@ihuxp.UUCP> <2614@alice.UUCP> Organization: Univ. of Maryland, Computer Science Dept. Lines: 44 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 {rlgvax,seismo}!umcp-cs!israel (Usenet) israel.umcp-cs@CSNet-Relay (Arpanet)