Usenet newsgroup vote "soc.culture.indian.american"

Gary S. Trujillo (gst@gnosys.svle.ma.us)
Mon, 9 Dec 1991 20:56:20 GMT

It has recently come to my attention that there is currently a vote underway
on the Usenet conferencing system run by many UNIX hosts in the academic
community to create a new "newsgroup" dealing with the subject of people who
trace their heritage to the country of India now living in the United States.
Their proposal, which is now in the final days of voting, is to call this
newsgroup "soc.culture.indian.american."

I have no strong feelings about the subject, except to note that there
might be some confusion, given that many people may become confused by
the name, given the potential ambiguity of the term "Indian American."
(Actually, the newsgroup name is based on a hierarchical concept, so
the idea is that the newsgroup "soc.culture.indian" is for talking about
Indian (the country and its people) issues generally, and the ".american"
subgroup is for discussing people from India now living in America.

I guess the only reason this whole subject might be thought to be germane
to our concerns is that the subject has come up from time to time about
having a Usenet newsgroup in one of the mainstream Usenet hierarchies
(like "soc.") to carry NativeNet material. (If anyone has a special
interest in helping with such a project, please contact David Williams
at "williams@hulaw1.harvard.edu." David has volunteered to coordinate
this project.) [Yes, I know about "alt.native" - but it doesn't really
count, since "alt." is not a mainstream hierarchy.]

Thanks to Patt Bromberger for alerting me to this development.

If you want to vote on this issue (see instructions below), YOU MUST DO
SO BY THE 12TH OF DECEMBER.

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>Date: Thu, 5 Dec 91 18:09:59 PST
>From: Patt Bromberger <van-bc.UUCP!squid.tram.com!patt>

>Newsgroups: news.announce.newgroups,news.groups,soc.culture.indian,
soc.culture.usa,soc.culture.misc
>From: alok@probe.att.com (Alok Vijayvargia)
Subject: 2nd CFV: soc.culture.indian.american
Message-ID: <6pqq9g+@rpi.edu>
Nntp-Posting-Host: cs.rpi.edu
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
Date: 5 Dec 91 06:54:19 GMT
From: NativeNet@gnosys.svle.ma.us
Approved: tale@rpi.edu

This is the second Call For Votes on forming a newsgroup to discuss issues
pertaining to Indian Americans.

If you like to vote "Yes", please send your vote to
alok@speedy.att.com or att!speedy!alok

If you like to vote "No", please send your vote to
alok@probe.att.com or att!probe!alok

The voting period shall end at 6 pm on December 12, 1991.

This unmoderated group would deal with the following:

1) Cultural aspects of the Indians settled, born or raised in America.

2) Career and work related issues affecting them

3) Entertainment and events of mutual interest

4) Family unification, citizenship, rights, grievances, advice etc.

5) Indian and international food recipes

6) Dating, marriage, division of work/responsibilities issues

7) Views of Indian-Americans about contemporary India and Indian heritage

8) American politics/society and Indian-Americans

9) Relations with other *-Americans (Chinese-Americans, Italian-Americans etc)

10) Travelling/sight-seeing, Vacationing experiences

11) Programs/Proposals for development in India

12) Programs/Proposals for building stronger links with other Indians (Who
are studying or are here on temporary basis and have not yet immigrated)

--
Alok Vijayvargia



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    Gary S. Trujillo                            gst@gnosys.svle.ma.us
Somerville, Massachusetts              {wjh12,bu.edu,spdcc,ima,cdp}!gnosys!gst