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On 26-Feb-91 in Re: A newsgroup for HCI/UI?  
user Richard Chimera@tove.cs. writes:
>It seems to me that HCI/UI is an inherently multi-disciplinary field.
>And should stay that way for some time to come.  If we were to create
>a new bboard for discussions relating to HCI/UI, we may think that is
>the best or only place to hold such discussions, and lose out on many
>valuable discussions on other bboards that don't seem so closely tied
>to the computer.

While I agree that it is a multidisciplinary field, I disagree that
discussion should be watered down among five groups.  For one thing, I
feel the very thing you cite (the replication of research efforts) would
occur more readily when discussion is dispersed among other groups. 
Each of the groups you listed deal with issues of human-computer
interaction, but are also more specific than general hci (is there such
a thing?).  Finally, many companies and organizations do not carry the
alt.* hierarchy and thus are shut out of a group like alt.hypertext.

I find it surprising that, considering the age of "the net," there is no
mailing list or newsgroup that attempts to cover "straight"
human-computer interaction issues.

A possible worse case scenario: a group for hci could be a sort of
collector point whereby people could be directed towards more specific
groups.

-just my 3 cents
-ed costello
-mapw/communications design center