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On Fri, 14 Apr 1995, Aaron R. Priven wrote:

>                      REQUEST FOR DISCUSSION (RFD)
> 
> PROPOSED GROUPS:
Adding a few - based on extended history.
> 
> misc.industry.media.journalism	Professional and student journalism (Moderated)
>                                 Moderator: Aaron Priven (aaronrp@best.com)
> 
> talk.media.misc		Discussion of the mass media (Unmoderated)
talk.media.demographics	Discussion of who is reading what information
talk.media.publications		Announcements of new publications
talk.media.announce		Announcments which affect on-line-publishers/readers
talk.media.economics		Discussions of e-pubs economic issues (digicash--)
talk.media.standards		Discussions of e-pubs standards (acrobat vs. SGML)
talk.media.distribution	Discussions of e-pub distribution/royalty 
management.

those subdivisions are popular "hot topics" which would otherwise drown 
out more generalized discussion.  I'm getting about 100 messages/day.
I'm sending about 5-10/day.

> talk.media.journalism	Discussion of journalism and the news media.
>                         (Unmoderated)
> talk.media.net-coverage	Feedback to media coverage of the Internet
>                         (Unmoderated)
> 
> This is a formal Request for Discussion concerning the creation of four
> newsgroups: a forum for working journalists and those interested in the
> profession of journalism, and three discussion groups for discussing
> aspects of the mass media: journalism, coverage of the Internet, and
> general discussion of the media.
> 
> This RFD is posted, in accordance with the Guidelines for Newsgroup
> Creation, to the following groups: news.announce.newgroups,
> news.groups, alt.current-events.net-abuse, alt.news-media,
> alt.internet.media-coverage, alt.journalism, alt.journalism.criticism,
> alt.journalism.print, alt.politics.media.
> 
> It will also be sent to the following mailing lists:  CARR-L:
> Computer-Assisted Reporting and Research, NICAR-L: National Institute
> for Computer-Assisted Reporting, IRE-L: The Investigative Reporters
> and Editors list, online-newspapers, and online-news.
> 
> PROCEDURE:
> 
> Please post any responses to this message to "news.groups" only.
> DO NOT TAKE THIS DISCUSSION TO ANY OTHER NEWSGROUP.
Would someone please post my reply? (My host is not NNTP friendly).

> A call for votes (CFV) will be issued approximately four weeks after this
> RFD.  Please do not post votes at this time.  When the CFV is posted, there
> will be instructions on how to mail your votes to the independent
> vote counter.
By the way, you wanted to know how we take a census, this is it.

> Aaron Priven; San Jose, CA, USA.  aaronrp@best.com, aaron@rail2000.org.
> Are computers alive? I know my computer doesn't have a life, because it
> spends all its time on the net.
We may have several candidates for moderators, including 5 different 
commercial "moderaors"
Ready to give up control to your competitor?


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