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From: richard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: .aquaria
Message-ID: <20982@gryphon.COM>
Date: 16 Oct 89 08:34:27 GMT
References: <526@ryn.esg.dec.com>
Reply-To: richard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton)
Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, CA
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In article <526@ryn.esg.dec.com> taber@pstjtt.enet.dec.com writes:
>OK, so the gauntlet was thrown down, and I picked it up.  We shouldn't 
>comment on renaming the fish-fancier's group unless we aquire an idea of 
>what (I'm sorry, "WHAT") the group IS.  So I looked into it.  We had 
>about 300 articles stashed on our server, and I read 100 (sequential)of them 
>and checked the titles of all of them.
>
>There were the standard "This is a test" messages, the usual childish
>flames over someone who nominated participants to the "Bandwidth
>Waster's Hall of Fame", a number of questions on the subject of "how do
>I get started?" and "why did my fish die?", there were the usual number
>of way-off-the-subject replies to specific questions, there was a note
>that went from books to mexican restaurants to fish.  alt.aquaria is 
>("IS") J.random, run-of-the-mill hobby group.  Most of these were before 
>the proposal to move to sci, so I assume the contents are reasonably 
>unself-conscious.

My goodness, what an absolutly revolting analysis.

I did see one test message - which can hardly be held against the quality
of a group, and yes there were severel followups to Kent Paul Dolans
brief excusrion to the dark side of sanity, as there were in news.groups,
but one would get the impression from reading the above that there is
no usefull information to be gleaned from the group, which is just plain
false.

Poor alt.aquaria. It is akin to a halfbreed who is not accepted 
by the race of either parent. We are told is does not belong in
sci because it is not a science (unless of course you *eat* your tilapia,
in which case it is aquaculture), yet submission of many of the articles
to any of the three aquarian hobbyist magazines would be equally
fruitless, as they would be rejected for being ``too technical''.

Yes, I checked.

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