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vlad@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu (Ken Nagle) wrote:

>Now, I don't see all that much discussion about suburban concerns on a 
>lot of these groups- except maybe a few like dc.jobs, dc.farsale.*, etc. In 
>those cases, unless someone plans on moderating the group, you are going to 
>have companies from all over offer jobs. Same thing with dc.forsale.*, in 

There's no reason to strictly limit it to the District line, because
we are a *region* as well as a city.   On the other hand, there *are*
Maryland and Virginia groups, and so suburbanites posting here should
show some respect and refrain from District-bashing.

That's not all that big a problem, though.  The real problem is people
posting stuff that has nothing *at all* to do with anything even
slightly local to this *region* under the logic of, "Well, Washington
is a unique city, and it's the NATION'S capital, and blahblahblah..."

I'm sorry, but that line of reasoning is crap.   Just because the
White House happens to be here doesn't automatically make everything
that happens there a DC concern, any more so than the fact that
Burundi has an embassy here means that anything related to Burundi
belongs here.  It's our city, it's our region, we live here, and the
nation has appropriate fora for national discussions.

The idea that everything that happens everywhere in the world can
ultimately affect us and is therefore subject to discussion here is
bogus too.  With that logic, you should crosspost DC local issues into
rec.skateboarding, because something that happens here *might* affect
a skateboarder one day.