Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!lll-winken!uunet!mcsun!ukc!icdoc!zmacx07 From: zmacx07@doc.ic.ac.uk (Simon E Spero) Newsgroups: news.groups Subject: Re: .aquaria Message-ID: Date: 16 Oct 89 20:17:03 GMT References: <20983@gryphon.COM> Sender: news@doc.ic.ac.uk Followup-To: news.groups Organization: The Society of the Department of Computing, Imperial College Lines: 50 In-reply-to: richard@gryphon.COM's message of 16 Oct 89 08:42:46 GMT >>>>> On 16 Oct 89 08:42:46 GMT, richard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton) said: Richard> In article <27837@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> dave@cogsci.indiana.edu (David Chalmers) writes: > >The issue is not distribution. Richard> In this case it is. Richard> All things being equal, I still can't tip the scales one way or another Richard> for rec. vs. sci. aquaria. There are convincing arguments for both. Richard> What does make a big diference is sci goes to all of Europe. An aquarium Richard> group not propogating to Europe is like a Unix group not getting to Richard> California, Massachusetts and Bell Labs. From: ih@ukc.ac.uk (I.Harding) Newsgroups: uk.news Subject: "New" newsgroups Date: 2 Oct 89 14:56:48 GMT Reply-To: ih@ukc.ac.uk (I.Harding) Distribution: uk Organization: Computing Lab, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK. Ian> The EUnet backbone, mcsun, from where UKnet gets almost all its news, has Ian> decided to carry all "world" newsgroups. This means that many newsgroups Ian> previously unavailable on UKnet, are now arriving at ukc from mcsun. As they Ian> arrive, these "new" newsgroups are being forwarded on to the sites that ukc Ian> feeds news to directly. Piet@mcsun intends to shortly issue a checkgroups Ian> message listing all newsgroups valid across all of EUnet. I'll issue a Ian> checkgroups message for those newsgroups valid across only UKnet - the uk.* Ian> newsgroups. Until then, here is a list of the "new" newsgroups: Ian> alt.activism ****************** Ian> alt.aquaria ****************** Ian> alt.bbs Ian> alt.co-ops Ian> alt.config Ian> alt.conspiracy -- zmacx07@doc.ic.ac.uk | sispero%cix@specialix.co.uk | ..!ukc!slxsys!cix!sispero ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Are you a fish? Are you a fish?" | (describe-no-warranty) "Too much coffee, I'm afraid"-J.P.Blaylock| my opinions are precisely that