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Subject: Re: Proposal for net.religion.jewish - (nf)
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Date: Thu, 9-Feb-84 06:22:45 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb  9 06:22:45 1984
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inmet!nrh    Feb  8 14:59:00 1984

This reauest for a newsgroup is amply documented -- how
many other people went to the trouble of forming such a private 
mailing list?  On the other hand, what's wrong with keeping it
a mailing list?  35 people is not so many when there are 1300-odd sites
on uucpnet.  Perhaps a few weeks of discussion of these issues in
net.misc or net.religion are in order, just to show the 
skeptics that it is desirable.  Like Len Tower, I'm not impressed by
the notion that N people want a newsgroup (N is small) and therefore
it should be created. (remember net.wobegon?).  Why should 
net.religion.jewish be exempt from this (to my mind quite reasonable)
requirement that the discussion be significant enough in volume and 
content to warrant separation from other newsgroups?  (Not that it 
would be the first exempt group, by any means).

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I am opposed to merely creating this newsgroup by acclamation -- not
on any sort of consideration of the merits of the IDEA of 
net.religion.jewish, merely on the basis of a particular idea of 
how newgroups should prove themselves worthy of existence.
I think that if net.religion.jewish is as needed as people suggest, it 
will have no problem "paying its dues" by demonstrating its
traffic in some existing newsgroup.  If it can't, though, it shouldn't
exist.

Also I'd prefer a shorter name: I think that it would be unfortunate to put
system administrators who prefer notes or A news or whatever in the
position of seeming anti-Semitic, or, given the likelihood of other
such groups forming, anti-religious in general.