22 What Is soc.history.war.vietnam and How It Came to Be
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This article is from the Vietnam FAQ, by Brian Ross, John R. Tegtmeier, Edwin E. Moise, Frank Vaughan, John Tegtmeier with numerous contributions by others.
22 What Is soc.history.war.vietnam and How It Came to Be
In the middle of 1994, after lengthy discussion and debate within the
newsgroup alt.war.vietnam, it was decided to form a new newsgroup
dedicated to the discussion of the Vietnam War.
Alt.war.vietnam, being an unmoderated newsgroup was subject to considerable
chaos caused by innumerable flame wars, shouting and slinging matches and
outright mayhem, with the result that those who were coming to the
Usenet for some healing and understanding of the events as well as
those who where interested in the study of wars in Indochina were
getting disgusted, or worse, hurt by what was occurring.
The first thought had been to moderate the existing newsgroup,
alt.war.vietnam, but that was met almost universally with a negative
response. The second idea was to create a new newsgroup, and in the
process put it on the mainstream hierarchy. So began the process by
which this newsgroup came into being in the first half of 1995.
Soc.History.War.Vietnam (SHWV) was created to provide an open forum
for the objective discussion of the Vietnam and Indochinese wars,
their causes, aftermath, and effect on the people and societies which
took part in them. The use of a moderator was intended to provide an
environment that is conducive to this discussion, and open to all
categories of potential readers/ contributors without regard to
ideological or political positions. All this is laid out in the
Charter of the newsgroup.
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