Theos-Talk Archives (January 1998 Message tl00028)

>From what I have seen on newsgroups with smaller audience, it is unusual to
see much of traffic. I may be wrong with the proposed one. There is one
very useful purpose the newsgroups have. Since they are generally searched
thru search engines, they are an excellent place to put information which
is made available those who don't know about this maillist. I have seen
this happen on theos-l and alt.theosophy. The maillists are liked by many
of us due to the fast responses we see.

mkr

At 10:09 AM 1/9/1998 +0100, Dirk Lutzebaeck wrote:
>
>Today I found this proposol on alt.config to create a K oriented
>newsgroup. This is a bit surprising to me because we hadn't much
>discussions on forming a K newsgroup here and the request explictly
>mentions this list. I don't want to stop Steve in creating this
>newsgroup in anyway but to me it seems to be quite a challenge.
>
>Dirk
>
>
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>  Subject: Proposal: alt.philosophy.krishnamurti
>  From: Steve Nyberg <stevenyberg@yahoo.com>
>  Date: Thu, 08 Jan 1998 02:28:41 -0800
>  Message-ID: <34B4AA59.6FA@yahoo.com>
>  Organization: EarthLink Network, Inc.
>  Newsgroups: alt.config
>  Word Matches: LISTENING-L
>
>
>
>  Summary of Proposal:
>  Create alt.philosophy.krishnamurti newsgroup
>
>  Reason:
>  Jiddu Krishnamurti was a popular philosopher and teacher for most of the
>  20th century (1895 to 1986). He was an influence on many significant
>  world figures, including Aldous Huxley, Joseph Campbell, Dr. David Bohm,
>  and Indira Gandhi. He wrote over a hundred books on philosophy
>  (amazon.com search of Krishnamurti,Jiddu returns 90 titles.) and has
>  schools and foundations in many parts of the world. For almost his
>  entire adult life he travelled the world speaking and lecturing. His
>  philosophy is often summed up by this quote: "Truth is a pathless land."
>
>  Some of the internet resources include the Krishnamurti Foundation Trust
>  in England (http://www.brockwood.org.uk/) and the Krishnamurti
>  Foundation Of America (http://www.rain.org/~kfa/). There is also a site
>  in Berlin which has a mailing list listserv (listening-l) which has been
>  in place for 4-5 years
>  (http://flp.cs.tu-berlin.de:1895/listening-l/html/menu.html).
>
>  Current posting of newsgroup messages is spread out over many diverse
>  and non-related newsgroups, such as alt.zen, alt.meditation,
>  alt.religion.buddhism.
>
>  Creating this newsgroup would help consolidate the messages on
>  Krishnamurti, and will be a nice addition to the listserv. The volume of
>  messages on the mail list can approach 100 per day, which can be
>  excessive.
>
>  Please reply to stevenyberg@yahoo.com
>