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From: cep@Apple.COM (Christopher Pettus)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: Call of votes - sci.aquaria (sort of moderated)
Keywords: just say no
Message-ID: <4775@internal.Apple.COM>
Date: 16 Oct 89 20:12:13 GMT
References: <20986@gryphon.COM>
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In article <20986@gryphon.COM> richard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton) writes:
>Whats the difference ? It turns out that sci goes to Europe
>and rec, for the most part, doesn't. (rec, for example
>doesn't go to Germany and Holland).
>
>Now, this is probably for a reason, ie. they don't want the
>volume, which is understandable. But to restrict a low volume,
>high quality technical group like .aquaria from these countries
>is less than desirable.

Simply because European sites have not decided to receive entire
rec.* feeds is not an appropriate reason to position the group in the
sci.* hierarchy.  I, for one, miss European input in rec.aviation 
(excluding _France_ from aviation discussions?  Makes no sense), but
that's NOT an appropriate reason to move it to sci.aviation.  I'm sure
that rec.av has just as many, if not more, technical articles than
alt.aquaria; it is, however, a newsgroup by and for aviation amateurs,
rather than aerospace researchers, and is therefore more appropriately
in the rec space.

Also, isn't this call for votes more than a bit premature?  It definitely
has NOT been a full length discussion as required by the guidelines.

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