From hungary-online-owner Sat Mar 11 17:59:23 1995 Return-Path: owner-Hungary-Online Received: from localhost (daemon@localhost) (fnord) by nando.yak.net (8.6.5/8.6.5) id RAA09322 for hungary-online-out31415; Sat, 11 Mar 1995 17:59:23 -0800 Received: from localhost (daemon@localhost) (fnord) by nando.yak.net (8.6.5/8.6.5) id RAA09316 for hungary-online; Sat, 11 Mar 1995 17:59:13 -0800 Received: via =-=-=-=-= from fekete@bcuxs2.bc.edu for hungary-online@hungary.yak.net (hungary-online) Received: from bcuxs2.bc.edu (bcuxs2.bc.edu [136.167.15.3]) (fnord) by nando (8.6.5/8.6.5) with SMTP id RAA09251 for ; Sat, 11 Mar 1995 17:58:21 -0800 Received: by bcuxs2.bc.edu (5.65/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA12993; Sat, 11 Mar 1995 20:59:07 -0500 Date: Sat, 11 Mar 1995 20:59:07 -0500 (EST) From: "Zoli Fekete, keeper of hungarian-faq" To: Steven Carlson Cc: Hungary-Online@hungary.yak.net Subject: Re: (HOL) soc.culture.hungarian Usenet proposal In-Reply-To: Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-Hungary-Online@hungary.yak.net Precedence: bulk Reply-To: Hungary-Online@hungary.yak.net Steve, > You think the Usenet powers-that-be should rename the existing > soc.culture.magyar to soc.culture.hungarian. The term "magyar" may not be > familiar to the English-speaking Usenet world, and so the newsgroup might > have more traffic if it carried the name "hungarian". Well, not quite ;-) - the goal is not to inflate the traffic with contributors who can't make "magyar" out. Rather, it's to make it easier to find the group in the Usenet namespace, which is almost exclusively English. I have encountered quite a few fellow Hungarians who missed s.c.m because its irregular name. And we don't know about the others who may not have found even me to ask ;-(... > I'm not currently following s.c.m, but the traffic seemed quite slow. > However it seems to me most people either use the HIX system (in Hungarian > language) or the Hungarian list (in English). But part of the reason for the slowness is likely the misnaming of the group! Many people (myself usually not included) prefer netnews to email, and still s.c.m is less lively than even the basically scholarly HUNGARY list - this to me shows that something is amiss here. > Is this really necessary? That, of course, depends on how do you define necessity. For reaching as many Hungarians (and other interested people) around the world, I do think that filling the void in the Usenet namespace where most people look for .hungarian, would be a very good idea. No mailing list can possibly provide the kind of exposure Usenet enjoys: 260,000 sites and growing, with the directly searchable names at the fingertips of their users; this means the most readily available pointer to any topics there are, including to us Hungarians - if someone can think of looking for 'magyar' instead of 'hungarian', that is... Zoli fekete@bc.edu, finger magyar@world.std.com for the charter of s.c.h # Wallace Sayre said, "Academic politics is the most vicious and bitter # form of politics, because the stakes are so low." He didn't know # Usenet: welcome to the next level. (Ron "Asbestos" Dippold) ############# # This message to Hungary-Online@hungary.yak.net # was from "Zoli Fekete, keeper of hungarian-faq" # # To unsubscribe, # send "unsubscribe" to # An announcement-only subscription (less volume) is available # at # Send mail to for more information, # or to if you need human assistance. #############