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From: pellegri@ittral.UUCP (Dan Pellegrino)
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: An alternative to net.religion subgroups
Message-ID: <366@ittral.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 16-Feb-84 09:52:19 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb 16 09:52:19 1984
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This is not an original idea, I read it in this newsgroup a week or two ago, 
but, considering the state of the net.religion.jewish debate, I think it is a
good time to restate and propose the idea.  (First, for the record, let me
say that, although I am not Jewish, I am in favor of the creation of net.re-
ligion.jewish.)

Any reader of net.religion knows that it is very heavily laden with flames
and other very negative (and often anti-religious) articles.  This makes the
newsgroup a real burden to page through and it is very boring and contrary to
the original purpose of the newsgroup (this, of course, is my own subjective
analysis).  Therefore I propose that the subgroup be created in net.flame
as net.flame.religion.  The endless discussions that go on about specific
individual topics should move to net.followup or elsewhere.  Leave net.religion
for those who want to discuss religion in a positive light.  What I mean is
don't post in net.religion just to attack religion as a whole.  No one should
post an article in any newsgroup just to attack the entire concept for which
the newsgroup was created.  If one doesn't like religion, unsubscribe, don't
read net.religion or at least confine the attacks to net.flame.

The creation of net.flame.religion (or perhaps even net.anti-religion as a
main newsgroup) hopefully would clear the way for some discussion of religion
on a more informative basis.  Don't get me wrong, I am very religious and I
think that those that are anti-religious are making a big mistake.  I would
like to help change thier minds but I am more interested in clearing the 
newsgroup for more informative discussion and perhaps this would be an 
encouragement to would-be contributors that have been intimidated. 

Think about it, folks.

                                            Dan Pellegrino
                                            ittvax!ittral!pellegri