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From: rstevew@armory.com (Richard Steven Walz)
Subject: Re: Splitting comp.robotics
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Date: Sat, 17 Sep 1994 15:35:05 GMT
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In article <Cw4xup.20x@news.cis.umn.edu>,
Dean Hougen <hougen@pico.cs.umn.edu> wrote:
>In article <Cw47Bz.7Bp@armory.com> rstevew@armory.com (Richard Steven Walz) writes:
>>... there still needs to be a parent
>>group to these third order newsgroup names!! Just as alt.sex has numerous
>>other alt.sex.* hung off it, so should comp.robotics have comp.robotics.*,
>>but retaining the original group for introductory material or presentation
>>of material for every year's crop of up and comings folks and those who
>>want OPEN discussion and eclecticism!!! So keep c.r, and make c.r.research
>>or c.r.advanced or c.r.snobby-expert or WHATEVER! ...
>[more of the same deleted]
>>-Steve Walz   rstevew@armory.com
>
>While I disagree with Steve's tone (I don't see calling for the split as
>snobbery, merely an attempt to create more usable groups), I do think he
>has brought up an important question that I have not seen addressed thus
>far: Should comp.robotics itself be retained in the event that some more
>focused groups are created?  Here I agree with Steve.  I think that the
>original comp.robotics should be retained for discussions that don't fit
>neatly into one of the more specialized groups.  Further, removing groups
>has never worked well, so many sites would retain comp.robotics even if
>an attempt was made to remove it.  This would cause all of the problems
>normally associated with groups having spotty distribution and network
>inconsistancies.
>
>Dean Hougen
>--
>"In a perfect world there's uniformity.  
> We're all brothers in a perfect world.
> In a perfect world there's continuity.
> Perfect system, we're all brothers to the end."
>    - Oingo Boingo
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Dear Dean,
If I had seen your response here earlier in my newsspool I would not have
lambasted you as I have today a couple times! I REALLY opened up on you re:
communications ethics and slid into those wonderfully colorful words that
people use to get attention when they think they are not getting attention.
You surprised me and actually heard me. I recant. I ask forgiveness. I tend
to have to do this from time to time. I am not sure it is a bad habit, just
a habit that ofttimes finds me eating crow. Crow isn't bad as birds go.
Tastes just like chicken!:) Your quote from Oingo Boingo I found apropo.
I may not completely agree with you still about your reasons for feeling
you owe nothing to a family of newsgroups in the way of pro bono efforts to
less versed members. But I shouldn't have jumped you at least half as hard
as I did in light of your post above. Thanks,
-Steve Walz   rstevew@armory.com

