From: judy@valinor.mythical.com (Judy Labovitz)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: "RFD: rec.equestrain.racing
Keywords: racing
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 92 11:34:45 CST
Distribution: world
Organization: (What? Organized??) - Mythical Computer Systems

There have been three responses so far to this RFD posted in
rec.equestrian that were not cross-posted to news.groups.  Those posts
are contained below.

------------ # 1 ---------------------------------------

>From: 6175190@LMSC5.IS.LMSC.LOCKHEED.COM
Newsgroups: rec.equestrian
Subject: Re: RFD: rec.equestrian.racing
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 92 20:34:06 GMT
Organization: Lockheed Missiles & Space Company, Inc.

The question was asked:

>Are there people who would be interested in a news group on horse
>racing?

No doubt there are! IMHO, Horse Racing is often a huge waste of a beautiful
animal which often ruins their health at an early age and can border on
cruelty. Most people interested in Horse Racing are not interested in the
horses for themselves.

In other word, for my part, no thank you.

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>From: patty@alpha.larc.nasa.gov (Patty Howell)
Newsgroups: rec.equestrian
Subject: Re: RFD: rec.equestrian.racing
Date: 10 Nov 1992 21:33:54 GMT
Organization: NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA  USA

In article <92315.44929.6175190@LMSC5.IS.LMSC.LOCKHEED.COM> 6175190@LMSC5.IS.LMSC.LOCKHEED.COM writes:
>The question was asked:
>
>>Are there people who would be interested in a news group on horse
>>racing?
>
>No doubt there are! IMHO, Horse Racing is often a huge waste of a beautiful
>animal which often ruins their health at an early age and can border on
>cruelty. Most people interested in Horse Racing are not interested in the
>horses for themselves.
>
>In other word, for my part, no thank you.

 ditto

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>From: karlm@sequent.com (Karl Maerz)
Newsgroups: rec.equestrian
Subject: Re: RFD: rec.equestrian.racing
Date: 10 Nov 92 22:57:19 GMT
Organization: Sequent Computer Systems Inc.

patty@alpha.larc.nasa.gov (Patty Howell) writes:
|6175190@LMSC5.IS.LMSC.LOCKHEED.COM writes:
||The question was asked:
||
|||Are there people who would be interested in a news group on horse
|||racing?
||
||No doubt there are! IMHO, Horse Racing is often a huge waste of a beautiful
||animal which often ruins their health at an early age and can border on
||cruelty. Most people interested in Horse Racing are not interested in the
||horses for themselves.
||
||In other word, for my part, no thank you.
                              ^^^^^^^^^^^^
|
| ditto

Me, too.  I emphatically do not wish to have a horse racing
group folded into the rec.equestrian hierarchy.

Many of the proposed topics are not of equestrian interest so much 
as they are of "how to play the race game" interest.  Presumably, the 
newsgroup rec.gambling already covers much of this.  If you are really 
bent on a horseracing newsgroup, I would suggest you pursue something 
along the lines of rec.gambling.horseracing.  I doubt you will find much 
sympathy or support for the horse racing industry in rec.equestrian.  
The quote above pretty much says it all.

Karl Maerz
karlm@sequent.com

---------- and now mine --------------------------------

My personal opinion is the same as these other posts.  I don't want a
racing group under the guise of rec.equestrian.*; it would be much more
appropriate to put it under rec.sports.* instead.  Also, if there has
been a volume of postings about racing in the rec.sorts or rec.gambling
hierarchies, put the group in one of those.  There has been absolutely
nothing about racing in the rec.equestrian group; which means the
rec.equestrain readership has no interest in racing discussions.

In a nutshell, NO against a racing group in rec.eq, and "I don't care"
about a racing group in another rec hierarchy.

Judy

        
   Judith A Labovitz               judy@valinor.mythical.com
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