Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!rice!brazos.rice.edu!bbc From: bbc@eunomia.rice.edu (Benjamin Chase) Newsgroups: news.groups Subject: Re: .aquaria Message-ID: Date: 20 Oct 89 20:21:10 GMT References: <20983@gryphon.COM> <4732@ncar.ucar.edu> <2688@cpoint.UUCP> <8348@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> <2696@cpoint.UUCP> Sender: root@rice.edu Reply-To: Benjamin Chase Organization: CPRC, Rice University Lines: 40 In-reply-to: alien@cpoint.UUCP's message of 20 Oct 89 14:30:00 GMT alien@cpoint.UUCP (Alien Wells) writes: > If you had followed the threads to the > beginning, you would have seen that I was originally in the rec. camp. > ... I actually paid attention to what the opposition was saying and spent > a good amount of time thinking about it, and ended up changing my > mind. Me too. So, why is it that all the "compromises" I've seen posted are of the form: "I don't care that you want to form a group to discuss technical issues relating to keeping aquaria, I want my rec group first, so I can talk about my pet goldfish. Then, you are quite welcome to try and start all over with another call for sci.aquaria, once I've totally annoyed with the mindless drivel I'll post to the *.*aqua* group that _I_ want." How come none of these people have suggested that Richard and his backers go off to sci.aquaria, and leave alt.aquaria in place for the rank amateurs and hobbyists? That seems like the _easiest_ thing for all the guppy afficionadoes that currently read alt.aquaria. And then later, if they find _their_ distribution lacking, then they can certainly try to upgrade the status of _their_ discussions. Why is it that all of these people must come first, even though Richard had the initiative and energy to start the process to create the group _he_ wanted, whereas these other people did not? If you need your rec group so badly, why didn't you propose it long ago? To me, it looks like we're going to need two groups for the *.*aqua* traffic, regardless of how Richard's vote goes. (If for no other reason than because of all the ill will generated during this discussion.) I think alt.aquaria already has sufficient traffic to exist as two separate groups, even without all the recent flamage. -- Ben Chase , Rice University, Houston, Texas I've got four mullet in my aquarium. I like mullet. They're very tasty. (And best of all, they're native Texans!)