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From: robert@erix.UUCP (Robert Virding)
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: Re: Net.politics to Europe, Lets start world.politics
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Date: Fri, 15-Jun-84 11:52:02 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun 15 11:52:02 1984
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I think it is all very well to start building a world structure by
creating a world.politics but if it is to become something useful then
some form of standardization has to be implemented (horrors!). To
create another distribution which goes world-wide and still keep net.*
would just create even more confusion.

What is needed is a decision to create a local north american distribution,
e.g. na.*, as we have in Europe and then move all definitely american groups
to it. Whether the rest are called net.* or world.* is really unimportant.
But to have net.* and world.* co-existing is stupid.

I think the time has arrived to admit that Usenet is longer a purely
american network and make changes accordingly. This can be done by moving
all world-wide groups or all american groups, but something has to be done.

Relating to net.politics specifically, I feel that very much of so called
"local politics" has a global interest and splitting a politics group to
much could be harmful. The presidential election in the US is of interest to
everyone, and the US should definitely be interested european politics.

		Robert Virding  @ L M Ericsson, Stockholm