The soc.culture.thai newsgroup was inaugurated on April 28, 1991 on
the idea of Ayut Nissapa (ayut@ratree.psu.ac.th) proposed in the
soc.culture.asean newsgroup. It was intended to be a forum to discuss
information relevant to Thailand, Thai people and their culture.
Nittida Nuansri (noi@munnari.oz.au) was the coordinator for CFD and
CFV.

Soc.culture.thai charter appears in USENET control message to create
the newsgroup as:

> From tale@rpi.edu Sun Apr 28 17:50:24 1991
> Control: newgroup soc.culture.thai
> Newsgroups: soc.culture.thai.ctl
> Path: rpi!tale
> From: tale@rpi.edu (David C Lawrence)
> Subject: newgroup soc.culture.thai
> Message-ID: <jgygknh@rpi.edu>
> Sender: tale@cs.rpi.edu
> Nntp-Posting-Host: cs.rpi.edu
> Date: 28 Apr 91 21:50:11 GMT
> Approved: tale@rpi.edu
> Lines: 17
>
> soc.culture.thai is an unmoderated newsgroup which passed its vote for
> creation by 300:27 as reported in news.announce.newgroups on 24 April 1991.
>
> For your newsgroups file:
> soc.culture.thai        Thai people and their culture.
>
> The charter, culled from the call for votes:
>
> Purposes:       - for Thais & any others who are interested in Thai culture
>                   and other aspects such as :
>                          - travel information
>                          - news from Thailand
>                          - political circumstances
>                          - Thai food & recipes
>                                 etc.
>
> Language of discussion is English.