Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ut-sally.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!genrad!teddy!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!ut-sally!riddle From: riddle@ut-sally.UUCP (Prentiss Riddle) Newsgroups: net.news.group Subject: Re: starting a new net net.india (net.asia?) Message-ID: <653@ut-sally.UUCP> Date: Thu, 17-Jan-85 10:24:00 EST Article-I.D.: ut-sally.653 Posted: Thu Jan 17 10:24:00 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 18-Jan-85 10:23:22 EST References: <182@CS-Mordred> <386@unisoft.UUCP> <945@amdahl.UUCP> Organization: U. of Tx. at Houston-in-the-Hills Lines: 31 > How about net.asia? Or net.nlang.asia? I realize some may consider > this TOO general from the original proposal, but let's gather a > bunch of little things together first. The net.india seems to > have a following but what about all the other Asian cultures? > > This makes sense because they are usually thought of as similiar, > (and here's a place to learn about differences, too) and could take > in other discussions. net.politics and net.religion are overwhelmed by > Western predisposition. Net.nlang.asia would something of a > "net.Eastern". Just what does India have in common with {China, Japan, Korea, ...}? Something, to be sure, but probably no more than Greece has with the British Isles. Yet the cultural/ethnic newsgroups that have been created on the net so far are net.nlang.celts and net.nlang.greek, not net.nlang.europe.{celts,greek}. I say that Asia is too broad a topic to merit a newsgroup. The proposal for a newsgroup related to matters Indian came from two Indians, and I suspect that if they'd wanted to include all of Asia in the proposal they'd have done so. As for the other Asian cultures, I think that newsgroups to discuss them would be great, too, provided you can demonstrate that a large enough constituency exists. Until then, feel free to start any cultural/ethnic/linguistic discussions you'd like in net.nlang. I, for one, will be looking forward to them. --- Prentiss Riddle ("Aprendiz de todo, maestro de nada.") --- {ihnp4,harvard,seismo,gatech,ctvax}!ut-sally!riddle --- riddle@ut-sally.UUCP, riddle@ut-sally.ARPA, riddle@zotz.ARPA