From: swen1b1f@cl2.cl.uh.edu (ONEIL, PAUL GRAHAM)
Newsgroups: alt.config
Subject: Re: Time to Decide on the Name (was Newsgroup For Personality Typing Systems)
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Date: 18 Nov 1992 10:08 CST
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Summary: Let's figure out the name.
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In <1992Nov17.013024.11747@netcom.com>, noring@netcom.com (Jon
Noring), writes:

>It is resoundingly clear that we should go ahead and create the
>newsgroup on the alt.* hierarchy, and that it should be a generic
>newsgroup to cover all aspects of personality typing systems, and
>maybe even be allowed to naturally splash a little over into remotely
>related areas such as IQ measurements, etc, particularly with respect
>to human personality.
.. and his favorite names...

>alt.personality-types
>alt.personality.types
>alt.psychology.personality
>alt.psychology.personality.types

Mild ENFP, that I am, I think the group creation sounds like a good
idea.  My style [is that different than type?] is for short names,
minimum depth in hierarchy, and something catchy. 

When I first read about the proposal for the group, I thought back to
the best book I had read on human typing.  Ralph Metzner's ``Know Your
Type.''  He covers many of the well known systems on typing from the
ancient world and the modern, asks thoughtful questions about type
distinctions and the value of them, and presents a few interesting
gedanken experiments [including one that covers Meyers-Briggs, gender,
sexual orientation, gestaltism, and the 7 virtues and vices].

Many of the useful systems for typing humans are based on conjectured
correspondence between non-psychological features and psychological
concepts.  There is likely to be fair discussion of typology related
to body shapes that is only tangentially related to psychology,
marginally related to personality and yet important for human behavior
typing.  Other areas where typing is more important than the
underlying psych theories or surface personality reactions occurs in
religions, thinking styles, story-telling, and mythology and
anthropology

In checking the newsgroup names, I notice that the groups starting
alt.personal seem tightly focused on specific areas of human [or
bestial] behavior.  Those with psych are in the sci. hierarchy, and
that type exists nowhere else.  So I toss into the ring the following
suggestions:

alt.types
alt.typing
alt.typology
alt.typophile
alt.typical

I doubt anyone would read more than one note in the new group and
think it was dedicated to faces, feet size, fonts, body width, and
kerning.  In fact, modern dictionaries have now moved the personal
trait, characteristic, distinction meaning of the word to the first
entry and relegated the print meaning of type to entry 7 or lower.

In addition to a name, a charter carefully written to be inclusive,
yet focused on type, typing, and typology of humans, other sentient
being and their psyches would be important.

graham [ENFP]
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