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From: oleg@gryphon.COM (Oleg Kiselev)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: rec.aquaria vs. sci.aquaria
Message-ID: <20766@gryphon.COM>
Date: 9 Oct 89 08:59:57 GMT
References: <6402@ficc.uu.net> <798@pmafire.UUCP> <20568@gryphon.COM> <530@banyan.UUCP>
Reply-To: oleg@gryphon.COM (Oleg Kiselev)
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In article <530@banyan.UUCP> gil@banyan.com writes:
>I think you're missing an important aspect of the namespace here. What
>about people who are already into aquariums, fish etc. but are
>relatively new to the net ? Where are they going to "logically" look
>for a group on this subject ?

I think *you* are missing an important aspect of new user's best approach to
USENET - read news.announce.newuser.  There is a list of all newsgroups there
with short blurbs explaining their purpose and charter.  This simple and
ingenious strategy can save the new users a lot of trouble and time. 

>I think the majority of people likely to use this net who
>own/maintain aquariums do so for *recreational* purposes. 

While, of course, the majority of the people who subscribe to sci.astro
are the career astronomers?  Let's not be silly.  Just because people do 
something as a hobby does not invalidate its scientific unredpinnings.
-- 
			"No regrets, no apologies"   Ronald Reagan

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