Re: RFD: soc.culture.kurdish

Bulent Murtezaoglu (mucit@cs.rochester.edu)
17 Dec 1994 01:22:55 GMT

In article <3csjfa$7d0@rodan.UU.NET> astam@fwi.uva.nl (Arno Stam) writes:
[...]
> Summary : Discussion about the culture, history, social and
> political devolepments in Kurdistan or related to
> Kurdistan.

There is no such political entity. Maybe the above should be changed to
mention Kurds, instead of "Kurdistan"?

[...]

> This newsgroup will be established as a forum for sharing ideas and
> information about the culture, history, social and political
> devolepments in Kurdistan or related to Kurdistan.

Ditto for the above.

> This newsgroup will provide open discussions on the issue of
> Kurdish Question, that is shared by different countries where Kurds
> currently live.

Which are, among others Turkey, Iran and Iraq, but:

[...]
> The RFD is being cross posted to the following relevant newsgroups:
> news.announce.newgroups
> news.groups
> soc.culture.turkish
> alt.politics.ec
> eunet.politics
> talk.politics.mideast
> soc.culture.greek
> soc.culture.europe
> sci.anthropology

So it is more relevant to alt.politics.ec, eunet.politics, soc.culture.greek
and soc.culture.europe than it is to soc.culture.arabic and
soc.culture.iranian? Is this Kurdistan in Greece, or elsewhere in
Europe? Why this omission? (or rather why the inclusions unrelated to
the stated purpose?) I don't want to hazard a guess.

> Any subsequent discussion is directed to news.groups.

Which I didn't follow, sorry. A new RFD with a new distribution is in order
I believe.

[...]

cheers,

BM