From: csb58666@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Chad S. Beckett)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.celtic
Subject: Re: Two Celtic cultures -- two newsgroups
Date: 15 Apr 92 17:48:52 GMT
Article-I.D.: ux1.1992Apr15.174852.19886
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana

gln@cs.arizona.edu (Gary L. Newell) writes:

>In article <1992Apr14.022935.25238@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>, csb58666@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Chad S. Beckett) writes:
>> May I, a neutral American of Anglo-Saxon birth, offer an alternative
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Now let's get something straight:
> Is anyone out there who wants this split for any reason other than it
>will benefit *them* directly? Anyone? Geezuz, come on folks - reasons like
>"I'm taking a trip to Boston so let's remove all topics besides the Red Sox
>out of rec.sport.baseball" just really don't cut it. Does anyone here really
>think that s.c.c produces enough bandwidth to require a split?? I don't
>see it if it does - all I see is self-serving proposals that indicate a
>total lack of consideration for others in the group who

>a) enjoy dicussions on NI
>b) like *all* Celtic news whether Welsh, Irish, Manx, Scot, Cornish or
>   Breton. 


My interest in this matter is NOT based upon whether I'm going to Dublin,
Edinburgh, Brighton, or Oslo; it is just that there are certain aspects
of celtic culture that I am more interested in.  Not only culture, but
also political and social issues that, when discussing a political region
have less to do with the subject of "Celtic".  Example:  If I want to
read about Scottish election returns and how the country's populous
responded to the outcome, I have to weed through a dozen anti-NI posts,
that may or may not annonce that they are as such in their title.  What
I have little or no access to general news in scotland, aside from the
bare few lines I might find in the London times, and this group is about
all I've got.  What I am proposing is not to narrow the ideas of the group
but to broaden the scope.  In short, I want a broader subject matter.

If there is another group that gives me what I'm asking for, I don't (or I
should say, my university) does not have access to it.  I've tried to ask
for it, so don't post me about it.  Whereas I do not appologise for my views,
I would like to clarify that I did not mean to leave Wales out of my scheme.


Chad S. Beckett                                                       
Hopelessly isolated in this wilderness we call Illinois                        
Wanting little more than a lot of information                            
                                                                          
"There's more to life than culture"                                        
-Eric Idle from the first Monty Python episode, 1969