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From: chuq@Apple.COM (Chuq Von Rospach)
Newsgroups: news.groups,alt.aquaria
Subject: Re: ****   Call for Discussion  --  Creation of Sci.Aquaria   ****
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Date: 12 Oct 89 15:48:08 GMT
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>Do you mean to suggest that our European colleagues consider themselves
>armchair scientists rather than hobbyists?

>but I
>suggest that they will not be so pretentious as to avoid a good newsgroup
>just because it is in the "rec" hierarchy.

Actually, the Europeans might not have a choice about avoiding it. See,
Europe doesn't take a full feed of USENET, just selected groups and
heirarchies. Europe takes sci.all, so if aquaria is created in sci, they'll
get it automatically. If it's created in rec.*, however, the people who want
the aquaria group will have to fight to convince the owners of the feed to
carry it.

That's why the europeans are fighting for sci.aquaria -- it's in their best
interest to put the group there, even if it isn't the correct name.

Isn't politics wonderful?

-- 

Chuq Von Rospach <+> Editor,OtherRealms <+> Member SFWA/ASFA
chuq@apple.com <+> CI$: 73317,635 <+> [This is myself speaking]

Anyone who thinks that the argument over {sci,rec}.fishies is about
group names doesn't understand the system.