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From: tarvaine@tukki.jyu.fi (Tapani Tarvainen)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: Call of votes - sci.aquaria (sort of moderated)
Summary: rec.* and alt.* groups in Europe
Message-ID: <1522@tukki.jyu.fi>
Date: 17 Oct 89 06:50:29 GMT
References: <20986@gryphon.COM> <20988@gryphon.COM>
Reply-To: tarvaine@tukki.jyu.fi (Tapani Tarvainen)
Organization: University of Jyvaskyla, Finland
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In article <20988@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).

I don't believe this is correct.  We get our newsfeed from Holland
and we *do* get the rec.* groups.  I think the situation is the same
as in the USA:  individual organizations choose not to receive them
(to save disk space, to keep their employees from wasting their time :-)
or whatever).  Moreover, I believe it should be no trouble to get just
a selected few of rec.* and/or alt.* groups.  So, if any Europeans
wants alt.aquaria, they should talk about it to their newsadmin
or whatever.  (Is there some country in Europe that still doesn't
get rec.* and alt.* groups?  Even in such a case it shouldn't be
too hard to arrange, now that they're available close enough.)

>I propose then, to move alt.aquaria to sci.aquaria to ensure
>world wide distribution.

Given what I wrote above, it seems to me that such a move would have
no purpose other than enabling people to deceive their employers/
sysadmins/whatever about how news are used.  I find that a singularly
bad reason for changing the name for the group.  Therefore I am going
to vote NO to sci.aquaria, unless some better reasons come forth.


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Tapani Tarvainen    (tarvaine@tukki.jyu.fi, tarvainen@finjyu.bitnet)