[Inquiry] Re: subscribe inquiry@stderr.org to gmane newsgroups

[Jon Awbrey]

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elijah,

i have gone ahead and subscribed the "inquiry" list to the gmane newsgroup hierarchy.
i couldn't see a way to discover the implications of this medium without going ahead
and taking a few risks, so i guess we will just see as we go.  i only just found out
that i had a newsreader in my browser, and haven't quite got the hang of how it works
or how to integrate my use of it with my use of the email medium, so let me know what
else you know about it all.  at the very least it means that nobody will be forced to
have a lot of mail stuffed in their mailboxes if they do not wish to have it.

gmane home page:

http://gmane.org/

their is also a web interface:

http://news.gmane.org/

the gmane web mirror of the inquiry list is here:

http://news.gmane.org/thread.php?group=gmane.comp.inquiry

jon

> Jon Awbrey <jawbrey at oakland.edu> writes:
> 
> > Tom Koelman wrote:
> > > 
> > > Is this group maybe better put in gmane.comp.science.* or gmane.science.*?
> > > Just a thought.
> >
> > yes, the term "inquiry" is well enough taken as a synonym for "scientific method",
> > but it helps to use the fuzzier word so as to include the consideration of things
> > like everyday reasoning, ethical/moral inquiry, aesthetic inquiry, ..., that is,
> > any area where one may have questions and need a way of addressing them.  also,
> > the term "method" will sometimes inflame anarchists of the feyerabend brand to
> > question whether there really is, can be, ought to be such a method, and that
> > question is legitimate, too, falling under the head of "inquiry into inquiry".
> > this particular collab will maintain a focus on computable models of inquiry
> > and software tools for supporting it, so it is good to keep the "comp" in.
> >
> > i thought of upping it to "gmane.inquiry",
> > but then i thought that people might read
> > that as a faq space.  what do you think?
> 
> We'll leave it at gmane.comp.inquiry for now.
> 
> > PS.  I did not find "gmane.discuss.subscribe".  Is that a new one?
> 
> No, actually it was one of the first groups on Gmane.
> It is where the subscription request end up.
> 
> Tom
>
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