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From: hubert@entropy.UUCP (Steve Hubert)
Newsgroups: net.math.stat,net.stat,net.news.group
Subject: net.stat vs. net.math.stat
Message-ID: <34@entropy.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 4-Jun-84 18:27:42 EDT
Article-I.D.: entropy.34
Posted: Mon Jun  4 18:27:42 1984
Date-Received: Wed, 6-Jun-84 06:46:25 EDT
Organization: UW MathStat, Seattle
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I am the person who proposed the net.stat group a couple of weeks ago.
I went ahead and created the group last week, based on all the mail I had
received.  The overwhelming consensus was to name the group net.stat
and not net.math.stat.  This is because statistics is no more related to
math than are physics or astronomy.  Apparently Mark Plotnick and/or
Brian A. Ehrmantraut decided they should create a net.math.stat group
at the same time I was creating net.stat.  They must have based their
decisions solely on the small discussion in net.news.group as they
were not cc'd in any of the mail responses I received.

Since net.math.stat made it to most sites before net.stat did, I guess
we are stuck with that inappropriate newsgroup title.  This is not
a big deal, but will cause some interested people to miss the group
because of its unlikely name.  One of the ideas behind net.news.group
is that people mail to the proposer their ideas about the new group.
This plan is not workable if non-proposers decide to create the groups
in whatever fashion they see fit without having seen the full discussion.

Since most of you have already done so, let's go ahead with the
removal of net.stat.
				Steve Hubert
				Dept. of Stat., U. of Wash, Seattle
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