1) What is soc.culture.hongkong?
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This article is from the Hong Kong FAQ, by John Ho john@jho.com with numerous contributions by others.
1) What is soc.culture.hongkong?
In April, 1989, Wilson Ho, then a graduate student from UC Davis
and a small group of Hong Kong (HK) students studying in the United
States got together and formed an e-mail mailing list called HKNET.
It did not take long before the number of memebrs (more than 800)
outgrown the capability of the mail relay server. Same year,
Fred Ho from University of Waterloo in Waterloo, Canada
started the newsgroup creation process for soc.culture.hongkong (SCHK)
and the first posting went out on July 28, 1989.
The original intent was to off-load the more serious
topics (such as news, announcements, etc.) from HKnet to SCHK, and
keep the more "light weight" casual conversations in HKnet. As
it turned out, it was exactly the opposite. Today, HKnet carries
almost exclusively news from HK and China, and announcement from
Chinese organizations. SCHK, on the other hand, has evolved to
become an on-line meeting place and discussion forum for netters
with HK background or interests to make friends and to receive
lastest news from HK. There are estimated 50,000 netters in
SCHK worldwide.
In January, 1994, John Ho (john@jho.com) came up with the idea
of "soc.culture.hongkong.entertainment". With the help of Wing Ng
(wing@pegasus.com) in Hawaii, the newsgroup was created in March, 1994.
The primary audiences are music lovers and netters who are interested
in the HK entertainment business. Talks range from famous singers to
entertainment tabloids. Megatons of fun and entertainment. :) :) :)
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