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Re: TH: Re: Starting up a Community Forestry Usenet Newsgroup

 Post-To: Tree-House@Majordomo.Flora.Com (Community Forestry) ----------
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Mark Stephens wrote:
> 
>  Post-To: Tree-House@Majordomo.Flora.Com (Community Forestry) ----------
>  -------
> Hi,
> 
> I like
>  sci.environment.trees
> or
> sci.environment.urbanforests
> 
> My 2 cents :-)
> 
>  ----
> From: RT Ellsberry <flora@Flora.Com>
> To: Community Forestry <Tree-House@Majordomo.Flora.Com>
> Date: Sunday, April 20, 1997 11:33 AM
> Subject: TH: Starting up a Community Forestry Usenet Newsgroup
> 
> > Post-To: Tree-House@Majordomo.Flora.Com (Community Forestry) ----------
> > -------
> > Dear Tree-House -
> >
> > I try to keep technical net stuff brief if I can.  I have
> > approached the Usenet folks about starting up a new newsgroup.
> >
> > This is not an 'alt.' group (alt.tree.huggers), it would be
> > within the standard 'big 8' -- comp., misc., rec., sci., talk.,
> > etc., which are the most widely distributed of the newsgroups.
> >
> > The most obvious place for a forestry forum, under what are
> > called the standard Usenet hierachies, would be something like
> > 'sci.environment.forestry.'  However, I have requested that we
> > be given a chance at 'rec.parks.trees,' which also fits on their
> > category map.  (This would not interfere with someone else later
> > creating one or more forestry groups as indicated above.)
> >
> > This notice is so you can protest now rec.parks.trees if you
> > are so inlined, or support it if you think it is a good idea.
> > Please understand that within these strict hierachies, group
> > names are voted on by committee and cannot pass if they are
> > non-conformant.  We hope to have rec.parks.trees up and running
> > by September, offering attendees at the Urban Forests conference
> > in Atlanta (Ga US) full participation, which should be a pretty
> > impressive and exciting demonstration for all involved.
> >
> > Richard@Flora.Com
> > -------------------------+----------------------+----------------------
> > Richard Tryzno Ellsberry | FloraList Operations | Baltimore USDA Zone 7
> > -------------------------+-( http://Flora.Com )-+----------------------
> >


Hi

Most of the professional people in the field of caring for trees located
inside communities refer to themselves as arborists and to their
profession as arboriculture. These words should fiqure in the name.
References: