CALL FOR DISCUSSION : FORMATION OF REC.SPORT.CRICKET

[Spring 90]

I wish to call for a discussion on rec.sport.cricket.

All those interested in participating in the discussion may do so.

PLEASE NOTE: Send a posting of your discussion to news.groups for effec-
-tive action in this regard.

This newsgroup will be primarily devoted to the game of CRICKET.

All those nations playing cricket will be given due representation here.

It will discuss the following things :

1) Rules of the game.
2) Latest news about the game.
3) General info about the game.
4) Follow the progress of the game throughout the world.
5) Anything else that is concerned about the game.
6) History of Cricket etc.
So I request you all to participate in this debate for the creation
of rec,sport.cricket

[Jeremy Crampton]

This is a great idea whose time has come. We will, of course, devote
it to discussions of English victories over incredible odds in sunny
climes.

On second thoughts it would be rm grouped due to low volume.

-- e...@psuvm.psu.edu
jeremy.. cram...@yon.geog.psu.edu

[Mike Harrison]

In article <2...@indian.cs.utexas.edu> s2...@cs.utexas.edu (Spring 90) writes:
>I wish to call for a discussion on rec.sport.cricket.

I did consider whether this group name was wrong, how about:

sci.philosophy.cricket

soc.religion.cricket

or even:

rec.cricket.recipes (with Brian Johnston as moderator)

:-)

After due consideration, and to avoid huge quantities of junk postings,
I strongly support the proposal to create:

rec.sport.cricket

Mike,

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[Ashok Ingle]

In article <2...@indian.cs.utexas.edu> s2...@cs.utexas.edu (Spring 90) writes:

> I wish to call for a discussion on rec.sport.cricket.
>

I have to read two other new groups just to get the cricket news!
I would like to see such a group formed. I share the concern
expressed by Jeremy Crampton (sp?). The cricket news tends to
be "seasonal", the discussion is likely to be seasonal as well.

[Simon E Spero]

In article <20...@bellcore.bellcore.com> a...@ctt.bellcore.com writes:

>expressed by Jeremy Crampton (sp?). The cricket news tends to
>be "seasonal", the discussion is likely to be seasonal as well.

I would dispute the fact that Cricket is seasonal; with Winter tours
in Winter (what a stupid time to have them), and the County/State/Red Stripe
leagues in Summer, there are very few times when cricket is not happening
somewhere in the world.

As for the subject matter, I would have thought that cricket was ideal for
the net. After all, where else could you find a bunch of people playing
a game for days at a time, having a simply splendid time, and still go
away without any result?.

The naming of groups is a curious matter ;apart from possibly
rec.sport.commonwealth, I would say that choc.culture.cricket might be
appropriate.

Chocolate Cake, anyone?

Simonners

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[William David Haas]

I read rec.sport.misc and have for some time. There is a current burst of
cricket articles but there hasn't been enough time to show if there is
enough interest for its own group. I don't think there has been enough
trafic to warrent this. Rec.sport.misc has had about 7-8 articles a day
(on good days) (anybody wanna run some stats?) and not all of this has been
cricket.

[David Chalmers]

I'm all for rec.sport.cricket. It's well known that the main reason for
the existence of the game of cricket is not so much to play it, as to talk
about it.

There's been a surprising amount of traffic in rec.sport.misc about the
subject over the last few months. Surprising, because I, at least, feel
a little uncomfortable posting about cricket there when it is clearly
something that only a minority of readers will understand. Rec.sport.misc
isn't really an encouraging environment for such discussions. Nevertheless,
there have been some interesting discussions there, as well as in
soc.culture.indian and recently in soc.culture.british. As well as these
discussions, scores from test matches around the world have been faithfully
relayed.

If cricket gets a group of its own, these discussions will be free to range
much more widely and comfortably. Count this as a strong vote of support.

--
Dave Chalmers (da...@cogsci.indiana.edu)
Concepts and Cognition, Indiana University.
"It is not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable"