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From: gary@sci34hub.UUCP (Gary Heston)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Request for comments: news.avian
Summary: This should have been crossposted!
Message-ID: <346@sci34hub.UUCP>
Date: 10 Oct 89 00:45:41 GMT
References: <35345@apple.Apple.COM>
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In article <35345@apple.Apple.COM>, chuq@Apple.COM (Chuq Von Rospach) writes:
= This is is a request for discussion on a possible newsgroup named 'news.avian'. 
...... [ some setup to this joke deleted ] ... 
= Morgan the cockatoo, learned a new word. There are a number of breeders out
= there who would also love a place to announce the arrival of little birdlets
= and other happy events.

.......[ followup to this joke deleted ] .... 
= like diets and cages and bird-keeping habits -- none of those things are at
= all newsworthy, and we want to avoid them in our group.
 
= I want to open the floor up for discussion of this new possible group, but I
= should warn you that I plan on ignoring all criticism about the group name
= and plan on calling for a vote on it after the yelling dies down, or when
= sci.aquaria is created, whichever comes first.

Excuse me, Chuq, your failed to crosspost this correctly. You left off
rec.humor....

Call for a vote. I'll be glad to vote against it. Of course, if you want
to start a newsgroup about breeding birds, then you should use the biz.
groups (or maybe alt. would be better...)

Yes, I know you're being sarcastic (at least, I HOPE you aren't serious),
but this is really getting a little excessive, isn't it? One solution 
would be to hold a dual vote on the aquaria group--for rec. and sci.
Whichever gets the most votes (and meets the newsgroup formation 
requirements, of course) wins.
 
= Chuq Von Rospach <+> Editor,OtherRealms <+> Member SFWA/ASFA
= chuq@apple.com <+> CI$: 73317,635 <+> [This is myself speaking]

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