net.stat vs. net.math.stat

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2 total messages Started by Steve Hubert Mon, 04 Jun 1984 22:27

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Author: Steve Hubert
Date: Mon, 04 Jun 1984 22:27

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I am the person who proposed the net.stat group a couple of weeks ago.
I went ahead and created the group last week, based on all the mail I had
received.  The overwhelming consensus was to name the group net.stat
and not net.math.stat.  This is because statistics is no more related to
math than are physics or astronomy.  Apparently Mark Plotnick and/or
Brian A. Ehrmantraut decided they should create a net.math.stat group
at the same time I was creating net.stat.  They must have based their
decisions solely on the small discussion in net.news.group as they
were not cc'd in any of the mail responses I received.

Since net.math.stat made it to most sites before net.stat did, I guess
we are stuck with that inappropriate newsgroup title.  This is not
a big deal, but will cause some interested people to miss the group
because of its unlikely name.  One of the ideas behind net.news.group
is that people mail to the proposer their ideas about the new group.
This plan is not workable if non-proposers decide to create the groups
in whatever fashion they see fit without having seen the full discussion.

Since most of you have already done so, let's go ahead with the
removal of net.stat.
				Steve Hubert
				Dept. of Stat., U. of Wash, Seattle
				decvax!microsoft!uw-beaver!entropy!hubert
				hubert%entropy@uw-beaver

Re: net.stat vs. net.math.stat

#11

Author: Mark Plotnick
Date: Tue, 05 Jun 1984 23:10

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I'm sorry for jumping the gun.  It's not too late to change the name,
if people want.  Newsgroup names have been successfully changed
even several months into groups' lives.  Perhaps we can settle
this before we reach even half a dozen messages in the new group(s).
	Mark

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