Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ncar!tank!suzy From: suzy@tank.uchicago.edu (suzy marie mercer) Newsgroups: news.groups Subject: Re: ==>> CALL FOR DISCUSSION: Moving alt.rhode_island <<== Message-ID: <5858@tank.uchicago.edu> Date: 17 Oct 89 16:22:02 GMT References: <106@rayssd.ray.com> Reply-To: suzy@tank.uchicago.edu (suzy marie mercer) Organization: University of Chicago Lines: 34 In article <106@rayssd.ray.com> gmp@quahog.ssd.ray.com (Greg Paris) writes: : :As many of you know, there currently exists a newsgroup dedicated to the :discussion of all things pertaining to the State of Rhode Island and :Providence Plantations: alt.rhode_island. I believe that the time has :come to move Rhody discussions to a mainstream news hierarchy, and as :the proposed charter for the newgroup makes obvious, the appropriate :choice for the new newsgroup is sci.rhode-island. : :This is a call for discussion of the creation of sci.rhode-island. The :discussion period will end twenty-one days from the date of this post- :ing. : (stuff deleted) :-- :Greg Paris I think it is clear to anyone following the important discussions here that Greg is proposing to place this very otherwise very valuable group in the wrong hierarchy. Given the fact that Rhode Island is 95% water and given that fish and various sea mammals live in water, it is clear that the group should NOT be sci.rhode-island, but rather: sci.aquaria.rhode-island To name it otherwise would be to debase the dignity of all who stick things in tanks. If this group goes to a vote as sci.rhode-island, I will urge a a no vote and I will send lots of postings until I get my way. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ suzy marie mercer suzy@tank.uchicago.edu ....!uunet!mimsy!oddjob!tank!suzy ------------------------------------------------------------------------