[1635] in tlhIngan-Hol
alt.config -- "Hit them hard and hit them fast!"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Sun Oct 10 16:57:16 1993
Reply-To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@klingon.east.sun.com>
From: geno@nevada.edu (EuGene epetai-Tramaglino)
To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@klingon.east.sun.com>
Date: Sun, 10 Oct 93 13:50:52 -0700
tlhInganpu'
There is currently a discussion in alt.config about whether or not to
form newsgroups on Klingon language and culture, and on how they
should be named and organized. I suggest quick action.
Errors being considered are: placing Klingon studies under one of the
startrek hierarchies; dividing them among rec.., sci.lang.., soc..,
et cetera; combining the culture and language groups; and simply
using rec.arts.startrek.misc with KLINGON: in the subject lines.
I advise going there now, and advocating either a structure like the
following...
alt.klingon.misc FAQs, BS, et cetera
alt.klingon.lang langauage group
... or no groups at all. Why? Once formed, cleaning up the groups is
going to be damn near impossible.
So what if we need more groups? Well, that's easy...
alt.klingon.prose alt.klingon.poetry.love
alt.klingon.politics alt.klingon.civil-wars
alt.klingon.opera alt.klingon.opera.'aqtu'.melota'.je
alt.klingon.ISO-wives alt.klingon.line-mad-imperials
... or whatever. My proposal keeps all the Klingon groups together,
and eventually, when traffic warrants, we can just "cut and graft"
the whole subtree .klingon.* from alt. to soc.!
Now, this list has more traffic than many alt. newsgroups, so volume
is not a consideration. (Although one netter said that tlhIngan Hol
is now spoken by more people than esperanto, so perhaps I should say
*low* volume is not a consideration!)
Geno
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