Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!rice!brazos.rice.edu!bbc From: bbc@nysa.rice.edu (Benjamin Chase) Newsgroups: news.groups Subject: Re: Call of votes - sci.aquaria (sort of moderated) Message-ID: Date: 16 Oct 89 23:24:49 GMT References: <20986@gryphon.COM> <35689@apple.Apple.COM> <3248@quanta.eng.ohio-state.edu> <9061@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> Sender: root@rice.edu Reply-To: Benjamin Chase Followup-To: news.groups Organization: CPRC, Rice University Lines: 26 In-reply-to: schinder@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu's message of 16 Oct 89 19:24:05 GMT schinder@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Paul Schinder) writes: > The issue here is > not whether an aquarium group should exist, but whether it should be > sci or rec; this is a question of how groups are named, which has some > importance beyond this particular new group. Unless someone can > quickly send me a list of 10 or more Ph.D. granting institutions in > "aquarium science", I will vote NO (at 12:01 tonight) to sci.aquaria. > I would not vote at all if the name were proper (rec.whatever). Shall we also send you names of institutions granted PhDs in: sci.crypt sci.nanotech sci.lang.japan sci.space.shuttle ? The point is, does the choice of the name for a USENET group doesn't need to correspond to the name of a doctoral degree? Many institutions grant degrees in oceanography, marine biology, coastal engineering, environmental engineering, ichthyology, fish taxonomy, etc. None of these seem to match well the technical discussions historically present on alt.aquaria. -- Ben Chase , Rice University, Houston, Texas If you see a fish hanging out at Gilly's, it's probably not a native Texan.