Subject: Re: PROPOSAL: alt.politics.grassroots-party

From: [email-masked] (Will Shetterly)
Date: Wed, 9 Nov 1994 08:24:40 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>, [email-masked]
(Jonathan Grobe) wrote:

> In article <[email-masked]>, [email-masked] (Will Shetterly) writes:
> >The Grassroots Party is the first political party that believes in
> >increasing individual liberty and social responsibility, thereby uniting
> >the dueling American traditions of "Leave folks alone who want to be left
> >alone" and "Help folks who want help." We believe in legalizing all
> >consensual activities. We also believe in a strong progressive government:
> >we support universal health and day care, improving public education,
> >protecting the environment, increasing workers' and consumers' rights, etc.
> >The party began in Minnesota in 1986. There are branches in several other
> >states. Is it time for the party to have its own newsgroup?
> 
> The name is wrong. Each component of a name is limited to 14 characters;
> grassroots-party is 16 characters.
> 
> You might also put it in the alt.politics.usa.* hierarchy.
>                                
> How many members do you have? I wonder if you have enough, and suggest
> you consider a mailing list instead.
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> Jonathan Grobe  [email-masked]

We get more votes in Minnesota than the Libertarians do. (Can't give exact
figures now 'cause it's election night.) Why the ".usa" hierarchy? It may
be a US party now, but Canadians have expressed interest. I fear naming it
"alt.politics.grassroots"  would make people think we were talking about
grassroots politics in general (a problem that Democrats, Republicans, and
Libertarians don't have, since they established their parties before
newsgroups were around). And we don't have an official nickname, so we
couldn't call it "alt.politics.grassrooters." Well, maybe we could, if no
better ideas appear.

-- 
Will Shetterly, MN Grassroots Party candidate for governor
[email-masked] * Box 7253, Minneapolis, MN 55407