Top Document: soc.culture.jewish FAQ: Introduction to the FAQ and s.c.j Newsgroups (1/12) Previous Document: Question 1.2: What are the major Jewish newsgroups on USENET? Next Document: Question 1.4: What are the charters of the various Jewish newsgroups? See reader questions & answers on this topic! - Help others by sharing your knowledge Answer: The name "soc.culture.jewish" (S.C.J) is a net.historical relic. In the early years of Usenet, there was only one Jewish newsgroups, and it was named net.religion.jewish. In the late 1980s, the Usenet namespace was reworked in what was called the "Great Renaming". This renaming took the flat namespace of net.* groups, and created the new top-level groups: comp, rec, soc, talk, sci, misc, and news. At this time, there was a common belief that renaming net.religion.jewish to talk.religion.jewish would be detrimental to the group's success, for it was believed that talk. groups would have lower propagation and be less likely to be carried by administrators. So the net's collective "yidisher kop" [or "yidisher kop"] did an end run around this, and proposed that the group be moved into the soc.culture.* hierarchy. And here we are. At time has passed, a number of split-offs from soc.culture.jewish have been created. Some of these have been created in the soc.culture.jewish hierarchy, for various reasons (e.g., s.c.j.parenting, s.c.j.holocaust, s.c.j.moderated). Others have been created in other hierarchies, with a clear identification of their Jewish nature (rec.food.cuisine.jewish, rec.humor.jewish, soc.geneology.jewish). Other newsgroups have been created in the free-for-all "alt" hierarchy, with almost any name. So, while Jews have argued forever about whether Judaism is more of a "culture" or a "religion" or a something else, the choice of name for this newsgroup is not proof of anything. So if you start arguing "but this group is soc.culture.jewish, so...," please, as a well known character in a 1970's US television comedy series says: "just stifle." User Contributions:Top Document: soc.culture.jewish FAQ: Introduction to the FAQ and s.c.j Newsgroups (1/12) Previous Document: Question 1.2: What are the major Jewish newsgroups on USENET? Next Document: Question 1.4: What are the charters of the various Jewish newsgroups? Single Page [ Usenet FAQs | Web FAQs | Documents | RFC Index ] Send corrections/additions to the FAQ Maintainer: SCJ FAQ Maintainer <maintainer@scjfaq.org>
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