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From: cyrill@scicom.AlphaCDC.COM (Cyro Lord)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: Request for comments: news.avian
Message-ID: <2039@scicom.AlphaCDC.COM>
Date: 9 Oct 89 19:57:16 GMT
References: <35345@apple.Apple.COM>
Reply-To: cyrill@scicom.AlphaCDC.COM (Cyro Lord)
Organization: Alpha Communications Development Corp., Aurora, Co.
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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'. 
-There are a large number of bird keepers on the net, and these are a group
-of people who have newsworthy events to discuss -- the other night, my bird,
-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.
-
-Now, I've been thinking about this group for a *long* time and, while a
-group name like 'rec.pets.birds' or 'rec.birds.keeping' might be more
-appropriate at first glance, after careful consideration I've come to the
-conclusion that 'news.avian' is the only possible name.

I'm so glad that we all will have to live with your name for this group.
I know the rest of us can't think but are we really that dumb? Why this
'news' name? Because Chuq wants this name. No to maillists, no to 'rec'
even through birds don't need people to grow, people do this as a hobby.
Enough 'bs' about this. Lets not go down this road as we will have groups
named:
news.games, news.soaps, news.tv, news.radio, news.etc ........
As can be seen, Pandora's box lives in this name. But, one never knows.
Maybe the rest of the net likes this name, not me and I still wish some
good programmer would make the news software able to dump newsgroups
into "/dev/null" if the active file has something like this in it:
news.avian 00000 00000 !   or   news.avian !
Putting this in the 'sys' file just sets the newsgroups files into
'junk' and that not good enough.


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