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From: bryce@cbmvax.UUCP (Bryce Nesbitt)
Newsgroups: news.groups,alt.aquaria
Subject: The "hobby" status of alt.aquaria
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Date: 10 Oct 89 08:12:15 GMT
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The current "official" Alerternative Hierarchies list (Published well in
advance of the current flame wars):

|From uunet!ginosko!husc6!purdue!spaf Tue Oct 10 03:50:32 EDT 1989
|Newsgroups: news.lists,news.groups,news.announce.newusers
|Subject: Alternative Newsgroup Hierarchies (Updated: 3  Sep 1989)
|...
|Original-from: hoptoad!gnu (John Gilmore) and spaf@purdue.edu (Gene Spafford)
|[Most recent change: 3  Sep 1989 by spaf@cs.purdue.edu (Gene Spafford)]
|...
|alt.activism		Activities for activists.
|alt.aquaria		The aquarium & related as a hobby.
|alt.bbs		Computer BBS systems & software.
|...

Nobody has complained about the MERITS of an aquarium group, only the name.
A sensible, unambiguous name like "rec.aquarium" will generate the fewest NO
votes.  Any supporter of the group should see value in that.
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