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From: allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: A Funny Feeling About This Fish Thing
Message-ID: <1989Oct13.003543.16956@NCoast.ORG>
Date: 13 Oct 89 00:35:43 GMT
References: <20645@gryphon.COM>
Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery)
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As quoted from <20645@gryphon.COM> by mhnadel@gryphon.COM (Miriam Nadel):
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| However, it seems to me that the overwhelming majority of the people hacking
| this to death would probably not care either were it not our notorious
| Richard who proposed sci.aquaria.  (And, yes, it should be aquaria.  These
| guys are serious enough to have more than one tank.  Lots more than one.)
+---------------

Wrong.  I read alt.aquaria when it was created, and occasionally look in on it
still.  (And still hope to convince Aquarium Systems to either get a second
direct phone line or ditch that retrograde Merlin phone system they installed,
so they can get back on the net again.  The fax and the modem got into a
fight, and the modem lost, so ASI was on the net for about a week.)

Anyway, alt.aquaria is pretty clearly not a "scientific" oriented group, but a
"hobby" oriented one.  Thus, sci.* is not the correct hierarchy.

More Usenetters are becoming active on the subject of correct newsgroup
naming; it is becoming less and less acceptable to create a newsgroup which is
in the wrong place.  This is a good trend, IMHO.  And it means that
sci.aquaria would get as short shrift if *I* were to propose it.

I have nothing against Richard, just his proposed group name.  Were he to
change it to rec.aquaria, I would probably abstain from the vote, but I might
consider putting in a YES for it.  As it is, it gets a definite NO.

++Brandon
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