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Re: alt.extropians

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From: Michael R Linksvayer
Date: Sat, 16 Jan 1993 09:46
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In article <1993Jan15.195228.18925@athena.mit.edu> hhuang@athena.mit.edu (Han-Young Huang) writes:
>Or is alt.society.extropians, or alt.philosophy.extropians better?

Extropianism is about society, technology, philosophy and
psychology, among other things. Any additional words in a
newsgroup name would be misleading.

>In any case, what does it take to start up a new newsgroup?  There are

Look in alt.config for the guidelines.

>tons more other newsgroups which do little, and the mail traffic on
>the extropian mailing list is extraordinarily high.  There is enough
>just cause, if that's the problem.

I think the only problem is that there is already an extropians
newsgroup - this one. It gets very little traffic. Why spread
things out more? If someone is willing to set up a gateway
between XTROPY-L and an alt.extropians newsgroup then it may be
a good idea.

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Subject: Re: alt.extropians
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