From: noring@netcom.com (Jon Noring)
Subject: Time to Decide on the Name (was Newsgroup For Personality Typing Systems)
Followup-To: alt.config
Summary: The group will be created, that's for sure.  Let's figure out the name.
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 01:30:24 GMT


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Notice the Followup-To: line above.  Though I'm cross-posting this to several
groups that have some interest in personality typing systems, such as Myers-
Briggs, let's keep followup discussion on alt.config.

My apologies to the alt.sex crowd, since at first glance this does not seem
to fit sex very well.  But it is interesting that the sexual response of
different personality types is quite interesting to discuss/study, so when
the new newsgroup is created, we can talk about that.  (Sure, Jon  :^)  )

The same is said for the jobs, education, and business-related groups.

Anyway, I had already cross-posted my original CFD to the above newsgroups, so
this followup (hopefully the last) is cross-posted again to be sure to catch
everybody who's interested in this proposed newsgroup (several came out of
misc.entrepreneurs, for example).

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In article yamauchi@ces.cwru.edu (Brian Yamauchi) writes:

>By the way, I think there has been sufficient interest expressed here
>to go ahead with the creation of the newsgroup.  The consensus seems
>to be to keep the group in alt.* and to cover all forms of personality
>typing schemes (but not other psychological topics), so a name like
>"alt.personality-types" or "alt.personality.types" would seem to fit
>the bill.
>
>I'd say, go ahead and create it.


As the originator of the CFD, I've been fairly quiet during this discussion
period.  Behind the scenes, however, I've been very busy answering e-mail,
and accumulating all the recommendations.  I've got a mailing list of about
30 people who support the newsgroup creation, with no negative responses
regarding the general concept (there were some people who had definite
opinions as to what characteristics of the proposed newsgroup that they could
and could not support, however.)

Thus, there is little doubt that I will have any resistance on the part of my
site, Netcom, in creating the newsgroup for me (they've already created two
other alt.* groups for me in the past, but they did want to see substantial
support and proper discussion carried out in alt.config).

I thank everybody for their input.  It was valuable in helping me, an INFJ,
to crystallize what this group should be about.

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.

Now it remains to select a name for the group.

In order of the most to least cited name recommendations (some did not give
any name recommendations), here is the tally:

alt.personality-types                 10 votes for this (of course, this was
                                      the only one I mentioned in the original
                                      Call for Discussion, so some of these
                                      votes are soft.)

alt.personality.types                 2 votes (a variation on the first above)

alt.personality                       2 votes


Each of the following garnered one recommendation (in alphabetical order):

alt.personality-tests
alt.personality-typing
alt.personality.typing
alt.personality-tests
alt.psychology.personality
alt.psychology.personality.types 
alt.psychology.psychometrics
alt.psychology.traits
alt.psychology.types


To start discussion, let me whittle down this list to my preferred ones:

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


But let's discuss the name a little more to come to some consensus.  I can
see advantages and disadvantages to all of the many recommended names.

O.K., let the discussion begin.  We're close to getting it created.


Jon Noring  ('INFJ')


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