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From: richard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: is it recreational or technical ?
Message-ID: <21076@gryphon.COM>
Date: 19 Oct 89 07:42:25 GMT
References: <21042@gryphon.COM> <2952@splut.conmicro.com>
Reply-To: richard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton)
Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, CA
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In article <2952@splut.conmicro.com> jay@splut.conmicro.com (Jay "you ignorant splut!" Maynard) writes:
>In article <21042@gryphon.COM> richard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton) writes:
>>In article <2833646442@lewis.crd.ge.com> welty@lewis.crd.ge.com (richard welty) writes:
>>> rec.autos.tech
>>  ^^^       ^^^^
>>Thats what I love about the current namespace. Self contradictory names.
>>Would it be cleaner to have rec.autos and tech.autos ?
>
>This shows the basic flaw with your arguments against rec.aquaria, and
>your insistence on putting it in sci:
>Recreation and hobbies does not necessarily mean non-technical.
>The name above is not self-contradictory.

Taxonomically speaking, rec.aquaria.tech is less desirable than
sci.aquaria.

Think about it - rec (it's recreational) aquaria (its about aquatic life)
tech (it's technical in nature).

As opposed to sci (it's highly techncal) aquaria (it's about aquatic life).

When I think rec I think TV and football. I believe that technical
groups in rec as as misplaced as .philosophy is in sci.

I have no doubts that rec.aquaria can pass. There will quite likely
be one, one day. But even putting the distribution aspect aside
and limiting our discourse solely to the North American continent,
my belief in sci.aquaria is unshaken.

Also, it has recently been brought to my attention that when (not if)
the Monteray and Cabrillo aquariums come online it seems more natural
that they would contribute to a sci group than a rec.pets.whales thing.

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