Xref: utzoo alt.aquaria:4163 news.groups:13126 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!husc6!m2c!jjmhome!cpoint!alien From: alien@cpoint.UUCP (Alien Wells) Newsgroups: alt.aquaria,news.groups Subject: Re: **** Call for Discussion -- Creation of Sci.Aquaria **** Message-ID: <2674@cpoint.UUCP> Date: 11 Oct 89 19:08:17 GMT References: <2213@cbnewsd.ATT.COM > <3182@quanta.eng.ohio-state.edu > <152@ark1.nswc.navy.mil > <2287@cbnewsd.ATT.COM> <156@ark1.nswc.navy.mil> Reply-To: alien@cpoint.UUCP (Alien Wells) Organization: Clearpoint Research Corp., Hopkinton Mass. Lines: 43 In article <156@ark1.nswc.navy.mil> dsill@relay.nswc.navy.mil (Dave Sill) writes: > I'll vote for rec.aquariums ... I'm not sure what I'd do with rec.aquaria. >Right now I'm leaning toward a NO because it's not as obvious as it could be. Gee, with friends like this ... aquariums isn't even a WORD! If you're going to propose that, I'll propose: rec.containers_with_living_things_and_water_in_them Obvious enough? :-) ;-) :-) >Lots of other arguments about whe the writer would like to see in the news >group, leading to what he thinks the right name should be ... I think that a lot of news.groups people are missing the entire point here. This is NOT a proposal to create a new group. This IS a proposal to take an EXISTING group, alt.aquaria, and move it into the mainstream heirarchy. Arguments about what kind of postings you philosophically think the newsgroup ought to carry, and what kind of people it ought to be aimed at are NOT APPROPRIATE unless you are currently part of alt.aquaria or are interested in subscribing. Comments like 'alt.aquaria ought to go to rec.pets because there are lots of people who would like a group there, even if it drives all of you away' (OK, so I'm heavily paraphrasing, but I think that's the basic idea) is like saying 'sci.physics ought to be in talk.physics because there are a lot of people taking introductory physics in college who would love to contribute'. And comments like 'if serious people want the group to be serious, it doesn't matter where it it, they will steer it that way' are total BS, there wouldn't be so many moderated groups if that were the case. The APPROPRIATE discussion to have here is where should alt.aquaria be put so it will get more mainstream distribution while keeping its present character. If you DON'T know what alt.aquaria is currently like, what it's character is, and what sort of people make it up - either subscribe for a while or kindly leave the discussion to people who care more about the group than flaming. -- --------| Sometimes I feel like a ball Alien | in the great pinball game of life. --------| - Steve Steir decvax!frog!cpoint!alien bu-cs!mirror!frog!cpoint!alien