Xref: utzoo soc.culture.celtic:1557 soc.culture.misc:478 news.misc:2193 news.groups:6386 Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!skep2!wcs From: wcs@skep2.ATT.COM (Bill.Stewart.[ho95c]) Newsgroups: soc.culture.celtic,soc.culture.misc,news.misc,news.groups Subject: Re: Let's have other more votes.. Message-ID: <324@skep2.ATT.COM> Date: 1 Dec 88 04:26:23 GMT References: <1067@etive.ed.ac.uk> <8074@megaron.arizona.edu> Reply-To: wcs@skep2.UUCP (46323-Bill.Stewart.[ho95c],2G218,x0705,) Organization: AT&T Bell Labs Center 4632, Holmdel, NJ Lines: 31 In article <8074@megaron.arizona.edu> gln@arizona.edu (Gary L. Newell) writes: > > avoid discussing .... political ... Northern Ireland ... > This is the stupidest thing I've ever seen. So just exactly how are > you intending to enforce this stupid proposition - hit squads?? It is not stupid, nor is it unprecedented, and one enforces it by periodically asking people to be courteous. It generally works. Net.abortion was created to get the abortion discussion out of *.women, *.religion.*, and other newsgroups, because pro-free-choice and anti-babymurdering people have differences as irreconcilable as the sides of the Ireland issues, but people still want to have civilized discussions about other topics in the various groups. I've generally stopped reading soc.culture.celtic because it's become a forum for political flames, and it's hard to find any remaining discussion about linguisitics or bagpipes or history in among the flames. If we create a talk.politics.ireland, the political discussion can go there and the non-political discussion can stay in soc.culture.celtic. So if anyone needs an adminsitrator to create a newsgroup after the voting is over, I'm available. -- # Thanks; # Bill Stewart, AT&T Bell Labs 2G218 Holmdel NJ 201-949-0705 ho95c.att.com!wcs # # One Bell System - it works!