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Another fine message from the rec.arts.movies.erotica reading room...
[Prev][Next][Subject][Thread] Re: RFD: rec.arts.movies.erotica moderated
Russ Allbery ([email protected]) wrote: : In news.groups, Orc <[email protected]> writes: : > Don't be silly; of _course_ you can have both rec.arts.erotica and : > rec.arts.erotica.movies. Some people like .misc'ing the main group when : > subgroups are formed, and some people don't, but the transport software : > doesn't give a fuck whether a group has subgroups or not. And the royal : > pain for _this_ administrator is renaming groups whenever someone : > inplements one of these 'required' renamings to satisfy the clique that : > must have .misc on every name. : In this particular case, though, I'm wondering if there may be an even : better reason for renaming. rec.arts.erotica is *not* particularly clear; : it could well be a group for discussing erotica. Good point. Close to two years ago, when I was just starting out on the Net (before I even had a full-fledged connection; I had to post everything through mail gateways and read everything through one of the Usenet gopher servers), I posted a question to several erotica-related groups on something I was seeking information on, including rec.arts.erotica (which, in my newbie state, I thought at the time was a catch-all group for discussing various forms of erotica). The result was predictable. : rec.arts.erotica.creative would be much clearer on the intended purpose. If the base group is so renamed, I wouldn't have a particular problem with seeing this group created as rec.arts.erotica.movies, though I still think the proponents have made a solid case for the rationale behind naming it rec.arts.movies.erotica. For me, the important thing is to get the group created, under whatever name. -- Joe Admire ([email protected]) ([email protected]) ([email protected]) East Carolina 1985 (Go Pirates!)/GWU JD 1989/legal researcher for hire *Stevie Nicks is _still_ the queen of rock and roll.* Team OS/2 - Frustrated with Windows 3.1 or Windows'95? Use OS/2 Warp!! References:
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