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misc.future.2000-ad The year 2000: its folklore, festivities and future.
(Moderated)
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RATIONALE: (Submitted by the proposer)
Various networks of organizations, literature and conferences outside
of the Internet have focused on the year 2000 for five, ten, fifteen
years. While occasional threads on the turn of the millennium have
appeared in dozens of newsgroups or mailing lists (many in which this
CFV has been posted to) it is time for a designated newsgroup to carry
on sustained conversations about the advent of the third millennium.
Discussions during the RFD phase confirmed that many people are ready
to engage in serious discussions on the cultural history of 2000, its
commemorative possibilities and its impact on future society.
CHARTER: misc.future.2000-ad
Misc.future.2000-ad will serve as a forum for discussion of all
aspects of the year 2000, including its folklore, festivities and
future. The newsgroup will be a place to exchange ideas, announce
events and post questions about the various ways in which society
might mark the turn of the millennium from 1999 to 2001, and the
possible legacy this might leave to civilization.
Specific topics might include, but not be limited to, scenarios for
the year 2000, ideas from bimillennial books, how the millennium
influences today's culture, how the media is covering the year 2000,
lessons from previous mega-anniversaries, the origin and use of the
great calendar, proposals for congresses or festivals from 1999 -
2001, updates on various year 2000 organizations, and overall
reflection on what it means to enter the third millennium.
This group will be moderated to limit off-charter traffic and focus
the discussion on the topic at hand--the year 2000. Submissions will
be rejected for the following reasons: 1) Lack of year 2000 content,
2) Thread drifts off-topic, 3) Excessive cross-posting, 4) Repetitive
content, 5) Excessive quoting, 6) Personal attacks, 7) Non-replyable
email address.
Participants are asked to keep their discussions relevant to the year
2000 and at the same realize there maybe other newsgroups where a
discussion of their topic maybe more appropriate, such as
alt.conspiracy, misc.activism.militia, talk.religion.newage, or
soc.religion.christian.
END CHARTER.
MODERATOR
The moderator of the group will be Jay Gary (jgary@rmii.com);
Moderator address: begin@rainbow.rmii.com
Submissions address: 2000ad-L@usc.edu
Stephen O'Leary, PhD <soleary@rcf.usc.edu> will serve as the back-up
moderator.
Misc.future.2000-ad will be gated to a mailing list now being created,
called "2000ad-l@usc.edu." The host site will be listproc@usc.edu.
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