Path: utzoo!attcan!telly!evan
From: evan@telly.on.ca (Evan Leibovitch)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: is it recreational or technical ?
Message-ID: <1989Oct19.190808.8770@telly.on.ca>
Date: 19 Oct 89 19:08:08 GMT
References: <21042@gryphon.COM> <2952@splut.conmicro.com> <21076@gryphon.COM>
Organization: Telly Online, Brampton, Ontario
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Anyone who hasn't written off this whole discussion as totally absurd
must be a glutton for punishment.

In article <21076@gryphon.COM> richard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton) writes:

>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).

Technical discussions about aquaria are a subset of the total volume of
aquaria-related postings. This is more logically done (and easier to
find for novices) with rec.aquaria.tech being a subset of rec.aquaria.

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

This kind of closed-mindedness about what contitutes a 'recreation'
(or what contitutes philosophy, for that matter) sorta says it all,
doesn't it?

>But even putting the distribution aspect aside
>and limiting our discourse solely to the North American continent,
>my belief in sci.aquaria is unshaken.

How courageous. So what?

>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.

So if it's rec.* and not sci.* they won't read or post?
This is getting stupider each day.

-- 
   Evan Leibovitch, Sound Software, located in beautiful Brampton, Ontario
                 evan@telly.on.ca / uunet!attcan!telly!evan
Canada could have enjoyed: English government,French culture,American know-how;
Instead we ended up with:  English know-how,French government,American culture.