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From: frank@rsoft.bc.ca (Frank I. Reiter)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: Call for Discussion - Sci.Aquaria
Message-ID: <55@rsoft.bc.ca>
Date: 10 Oct 89 22:50:00 GMT
References: <20503@gryphon.COM> <1989Oct5.051050.1910@agate.berkeley.edu> <17105@rpp386.cactus.org> <17110@rpp386.cactus.org>
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In article <17110@rpp386.cactus.org> jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F. Haugh II) writes:
>Too much nitrogen in the water.  Quick.  Are you going to ask a bunch
>of Dr. Who fans over in rec, or would you rather go grab yourself an
>organic chemist?

I doubt I'd ask either.  Rather I would post a query in X.aquaria
which is where I'd likely find my fellow aquarium keepers hanging out.

>
>Tell me how many other rec groups have the potential to kill an
>entire tank full of expensive marine ickys with one stupid posting.
>THAT is the reason the group should be sci.aquaria.  You aren't
>going to kill FIDO with the wrong brand of flea collar, but you damn
>well can kill off an entire fruit bowl full of slimey things if you
>grab the wrong bottle of food color.

I could counter this with a rec.skydiving scenario but I think that
this is really a non-issue.  Usenet is not a physical structure where
locating the X.aquaria group too far away from the sci.* buildings makes
it too inconvenient for the sci folks to drop in.  Putting X.aquaria next
to rec.gambling.and.drinking.and.carousing isn't going to scare away the
respectable folks.

Group names are chosen to be easily found by human readers.  I, and it
seems many others, would look first in rec when trying to find a group
dealing with aquaria.
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